Remote: Iteration Plan for September 2019

[kieferrm]

This plan captures our work on the Remote development extensions in September. We follow the same iteration cycle as VS Code. Although we plan for a whole iteration, we not only ship at the end of an iteration but throughout.

Plan Items

Below is a summary of the top level plan items.

Legend of annotations:

Mark	Description
:runner:	work in progress
:hand:	blocked task
:muscle:	stretch goal for this iteration
:red_circle:	missing issue reference
:large_blue_circle:	more investigation required to remove uncertainty
:black_circle:	under discussion within the team

Remote - Core

• [x] Polish behavior of the Remote Explorer (labels, section expand state) https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-remote-release/issues/1426 @roblourens
• [x] Investigate opening a remote workspace from the command line https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-remote-release/issues/585 @aeschli
• [x] Activate UI extensions installed into a remote VS Code Server https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-remote-release/issues/1400 @alexandrudima

Remote - SSH

• [x] Support connection sharing between windows that connect to the same host https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-remote-release/issues/96 @roblourens
• [x] Improve error messages when target platforms don't match minimal requirements https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-remote-release/issues/1427 @roblourens
• [x] Explore fusing the SSH explorer extension with the SSH core extension https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-remote-release/issues/1428 @roblourens
• [x] Support the VS Code Server on Windows in Insiders https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-remote-release/issues/25 @roblourens
• [x] SSH Blog post series @sana-ajani @gregvanl

Remote - Containers

• [x] Improve 'Attach to Running Container' support https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-remote-release/issues/1383 @chrmarti
• [x] Support to open/clone a repository into a volume https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-remote-release/issues/1395 @egamma @chrmarti
• [x] Prompt to rebuild on reload if devcontainer.json or associated Dockerfile/compose files have been updated https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-remote-release/issues/758 @chrmarti
• [x] Support all docker related settings provided by the Docker extension https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-remote-release/issues/859 @chrmarti
• [x] Polish Remote explorer contribution https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-remote-release/issues/1382 @alexr00
• [ ] :runner: Support 'ServerReady' for containers https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-remote-release/issues/1115 @weinand
• [x] Alpine container definitions https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-dev-containers/pull/126 @chuxel
• [ ] :runner: Container Blog post series @bowdenk7 @gregvanl

Remote - WSL

• [x] Contribute to remote explorer (installed distro, recents) https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-remote-release/issues/1142 @alexr00 @aeschli
• [x] Continued WSL2 fixes as they come up @aeschli
• [x] Investigate WSL2 and Docker extension https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-docker/issues/1199 @fiveisprime
• [x] Investigate Remote - Containers and WSL2 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-remote-release/issues/1089 @chuxel
• [ ] :runner: Add VS Code + Remote WSL extension in Windows/WSL 2 docs @fiveisprime

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Deferred Items

• Investigate: Reducing reliance on runArgs for common scenarios: mount points, environment variables https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-remote-release/issues/1201 @chrmarti
• WSL2 + Docker Blog post @fiveisprime @gregvanl
• :red_circle: :muscle: Support to debug the local and remote Extension Host at the same time @weinand
• :red_circle: :muscle: Investigate automatic port forwarding based on console output https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-remote-release/issues/1439 @weinand

[bhack]

Any space for the top 2 issues in the Containers section? https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-remote-release/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort%3Areactions-%2B1-desc+label%3Acontainers

[pwwang]

Any workaround for centos6 servers without root privileges? A lot of users encountered this and suffered from it. #103