Iteration Plan for July 2023

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This plan captures our work in July. This is a 4-week iteration. We will ship in early August.

Endgame

• July 24, 2023: Endgame begins
• July 28, 2023: Endgame done

The endgame details for this iteration are tracked here.

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

Accessibility

• Accessibility issues, see query @meganrogge team

UX

• 💪 Explore improvements to notifications for users using screenreaders vscode#183567 @hbons
• 🏃 Explore notification management UX for specific extensions vscode#41767 @daviddossett

Workbench

• 🏃 Explore support for multiple GitHub accounts vscode#127967 @TylerLeonhardt
• Allow Default profile to be a fallback for settings, extensions and keyboard shortcuts vscode#156144 @sandy081
• Investigate Settings editor startup perf issue vscode#179486 @rzhao271
• 🏃 Add proxy support to http2 requests in the extension host vscode#185098 @chrmarti
• Support Kerberos proxies in the extension host vscode#187456 @chrmarti

vscode.dev

• None.

Code Editor

• Roll out async tokenization vscode#184899 @hediet
• Accessibility improvements in diff editor vscode#187061 @hediet
• 🏃 Polish moved source code detection and rendering vscode#187432 @hediet
• 💪 Explore reducing merge conflicts by diffing both inputs against each-other vscode#157496 @hediet
• Monaco Editor Release 0.40.0 @hediet

Notebook Editor

• Improve rendering performance for streaming output update vscode#182636 @amunger
• 🏃 Support Copy Output through command/contextmenu vscode#187152 @amunger
• Explore Sticky Scroll showing markdown headers in notebooks vscode#182444 @Yoyokrazy
• 💪 Support trim trailing whitespace/empty lines in notebook cells vscode#181905 @Yoyokrazy
• Optimize IPC traffic on notebook saving vscode#172345 @rebornix @bpasero
• 💪 Handle missing language support in notebook cell vscode#187516 @rebornix
• Explore smart global search for notebooks in the workspace vscode#173726 @andreamah

Jupyter Notebooks

• Contributions to the vscode-jupyter extension vscode-jupyter#13885 @rebornix team

WebAssembly Support

• Implement the Canonical API for preview2 in TypeScript vscode-wasm#52 @dbaeumer
• 🏃 Continue work on the Wit Parser / AST vscode-wasm#52 @dbaeumer

Languages

Python

• Contributions to the python extension vscode-python#21593 @brettcannon team

JavaScript/TypeScript

• Automatic type acquisition on the web vscode#172887 @mjbvz
  • 🏃 Merge in initial prototype from TS vscode#182801

Language Server Protocol

• ‍Add .NET support to lsprotocol lsprotocol#205 @karthiknadig

Markdown

• 🏃 Add smart pasting of markdown URLs vscode#186289 @MeghanKulkarni
• 🏃 Explore project-wide linting vscode#163939 @MeghanKulkarni

Source Control

• GitHub: Automatic branch protection from repository rules vscode#182488 @lszomoru
• Git: Support opening repositories on symlinked paths vscode#5970 @lszomoru

Terminal

• None.

Testing

• None.

API

• 🏃 Explore ShareableDataProvider API vscode#176316 @joyceerhl
• 🏃 Stabilize DocumentPasteEditProvider API to support pasting images vscode#30066 @mjbvz
• 🏃 Finalize port attributes API vscode#115616 @alexr00
• API proposals: query @jrieken @mjbvz
• API finalization: query @jrieken @mjbvz

Extensions

• None.

Extension Contributions

• Improvements to the Remote extensions vscode-remote-release#8694 @roblourens @chrmarti @connor4312 @joyceerhl
• Re-think PR creation flow vscode-pull-request-github#4403 @alexr00 @hbons

Engineering

• Avoid launching pty host process when terminals aren't used vscode#182637 @Tyriar
• 🏃 Use Terrapin instead of crates.io. Artifacts support for Cargo is now available in DevOps vscode-internalbacklog#4353 @connor4312
• Ship separate third party notice with CLI download vscode-internalbacklog#4484 @connor4312
• 🏃 Adopt StorageScope.WORKSPACE and StorageTarget.USER in workbench vscode#183449 @joyceerhl team
• Revoke GitHub token on sign out vscode#152055 @TylerLeonhardt

Electron

• Investigation: Electron 24/25 vscode#184021 @deepak1556
• 🏃 Crash when closing macOS tab vscode#167936 @deepak1556

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Deferred

• Improve default theme diff colors for users with colorblindness vscode#182173 @hbons
• Update color token architecture and themes in Figma toolkit @hbons vscode-figma-toolkit#9
• Support word highlight across notebook cell vscode#184259 @Yoyokrazy
• Clean up CLI build vscode#178691 @connor4312
• ✋ PGO for VSCode Desktop vscode#170931 @deepak1556
• Explore a Changes editor vscode#179000 @lszomoru
• 🏃 Improve the keybinding recording widget vscode#178042 vscode#179015 vscode#179018 @ulugbekna
• Explore simplifying the account menu for built-in online services vscode-internalbacklog#3271 @TylerLeonhardt @sandy081 @aeschli
• 🔴 ​Move Live Preview extension off of vscode-nls @andreamah