Iteration Plan for December 2022

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This plan captures our work in December. It will be followed by our January plan. As usual, we will not ship a December release. Our next release will be the January release, that we will ship in early February.

As you can see the plan is rather lean as this is our house-keeping iteration. You'll see a large number of GitHub issue notifications over the course of this iteration. If you want to track our progress, @lannonbr a while back created this nice website: https://vscode-github-stats.netlify.com/

If you are interested in why we have issue house keeping iterations and in our general philosophy around issue management, then we have this write-up for you. As part of house keeping we will also fix bugs and implement minor improvements as we see fit. For transparency, we will add those minor improvements incrementally to this plan.

Endgame

There is no endgame in December as the next release will only be shipped in early February.

End-of-year Schedule

The last Insiders build of 2022 will ship on December 23rd. We will suspend our nightly builds between December 24th and January 2nd. You will see delayed or no responses from us on issues and PRs across all of our repositories.

Plan Items

Below is a summary of the top level plan items.

Legend of annotations:

Mark	Description
🏃	work in progress
✋	blocked task
💪	stretch goal for this iteration
🔴	missing issue reference
🔵	more investigation required to remove uncertainty
⚫	under discussion within the team
⬛	a large work item, larger than one iteration

Housekeeping

• Issue/PR Grooming - review, categorization, assignment vscode#167999 team

Accessibility

• Accessibility issues, see query @meganrogge @isidorn team

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Deferred Items

• All work that was in-flight end of November. We'll resume that work in early January.