Iteration Plan for November 2023

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This plan captures our work in November. This is a 5-week iteration. We will ship in early December.

Endgame

• November 27, 2023: Endgame begins
• December 1, 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

• 🏃 Show icon only button tooltips vscode#132344 @meganrogge
• Accessibility issues, see query @meganrogge team

UX

• Improve built-in walkthroughs vscode#197503 @daviddossett

Workbench

• Allow for floating windows vscode#10121 @bpasero @Tyriar
• 🏃 Explore the ability to hide problem markers throughout the workbench vscode#166797 @justschen
• Tree: Support sticky scroll vscode#161207 @benibenj

Code Editor

• Fix hanging UI when code action widget has many entries vscode#196857 @justschen
• Address poor code actions sort order with multiple fixes on same line vscode#197162 @justschen
• Migrate users from from boolean-based code actions on save to enum vscode#197161 @justschen
• Multi File Diff Editor vscode#179000 @hediet
• Support dynamic line heights using decorations vscode#194609 @hediet @alexdima

Comments

• None.

Notebook Editor

• 🏃 Explore built-in "variable explorer" notebook functionality vscode#165445 @amunger
• 🏃 Multi-document highlighter API proposal and enhancements vscode#184259 @Yoyokrazy
• Support picking tab vs spaces in notebook cell editor vscode#108675 @Yoyokrazy

Jupyter Notebooks

• Kernel API finalization @DonJayamanne
  • API proposal and adoption plans for 3rd party extensions vscode-jupyter#14669
  • Explore UX for code execution permissions for third-party extensions vscode-jupyter#14669
• Explore enabling Non-Python kernel auto complete vscode-jupyter#14672 @DonJayamanne
• 💪 Explore Kernel Picker experience in Dev Containers vscode-jupyter#14673 @DonJayamanne @rebornix
• Support module import/usage analysis in Run Dependent Cells vscode-jupyter#14674 @rebornix w/ Pylance team

WebAssembly Support

• 🏃 Investigate compile C# code in the browser to IL using dotnet.wasm vscode-wasm#112 @dbaeumer
• Test the threading support in Python WASM vscode-wasm#148 @dbaeumer
• 🏃 Support WASI preview2 vscode-wasm#52 @dbaeumer

Languages

Python

• Contributions to the python extension, see plan @brettcannon team

Language Server Protocol

• 🏃 LSP support to 3rd-parties vscode-python#21964 @karthiknadig

Source Control

• Ahead/behind view in SCM view container vscode#192290 @lszomoru

Tasks

• None.

Terminal

• Sticky scroll in the terminal vscode#172742 @Tyriar
• 💪 Explore quick fixes attached to rows in sticky scroll vscode#198116@Tyriar
• Highlight terminal commands subtly when mousing over them vscode#196634 @Tyriar

Testing

• 🏃 Design test coverage API vscode#123713 @connor4312
• API for selected run profiles (playwright ask) vscode#193160 @connor4312
• Support find in the test output panel vscode#193589 @connor4312

Debug

• Rust-based heap snapshot tooling vscode-js-debug#1855 @connor4312
• Investigate extension point for data visualization vscode#197287 @connor4312

API

• API proposals: query @jrieken @mjbvz
• API finalization: query @jrieken @mjbvz

Extensions

• Support finer-grained control over extension auto-updates vscode#194188 @sandy081

Extension Contributions

• GHPRI: Support merge queues vscode-pull-request-github#5402 @alexr00
• 💪 Allow users to resolve merge conflicts from PR view vscode-pull-request-github#1562 @alexr00
• Improvements to the Remote extensions, see plan @roblourens @chrmarti @connor4312 @joyceerhl

Documentation

• None.

Engineering

• Gather heap metrics from CI vscode#191920 @connor4312
• ✋ Deprecate macOS 10.13, 10.14 vscode#192897 @deepak1556
• Update build agent distros vscode-linux-build-agent#41 @deepak1556

Electron

• Update to Electron 27 vscode#196941 @deepak1556
• 🏃 Wire Electron.net API into the utility process vscode#192899 @deepak1556
• 🏃 WCO on Windows leaves no room for resizing horizontally/diagonally vscode#185249 @rzhao271

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Deferred

• Polish unfocused dimming feature vscode#191775 @Tyriar
• Fix custom ZMQ build for Linux ARM32/ARM64 vscode-jupyter#14070 @DonJayamanne
• Adopt canonical URI Provider API for workspace trust vscode#180582 @sbatten
• Automatic type acquisition on the web vscode#172887 @mjbvz
• 🏃 Explore support for multiple GitHub accounts vscode#127967 @TylerLeonhardt
• 🏃 Add smart pasting of markdown URLs vscode#186289 @mjbvz
• 🏃 Add drop/paste for css vscode#189875 @mjbvz
• Support keyboard navigation between groups in quick picks vscode#149046 @TylerLeonhardt
• 🏃 Improve Profiles Management UX vscode#192387 @sandy081 @hbons

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