Iteration Plan for August 2022

[kieferrm]

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

Endgame

• August 22, 2022: Endgame begins
• August 26, 2022: 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
: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
:black_large_square:	a large work item, larger than one iteration

Accessibility

• [x] Accessibility issues, see query @isidorn team
• [x] Only use IAccessible2 interface to detect screen readers vscode#157504 @isidorn @deepak1556

UX

• [x] Explore improvements to Command Center interactions vscode#155458 @daviddossett

Workbench

• [ ] Setting Profiles
  • [ ] :runner: Improvements to the settings profile experience vscode#155067 @daviddossett @sandy081
  • [ ] :runner: Support Syncing Settings Profiles vscode#154243 @tyriar @sandy081
  • [x] Correctly show language-specific defaults when a non-default profile is active vscode#156290 @rzhao271 @sandy081
  • [x] CLI: Launch VSCode with a specific profile vscode#151301 @sandy081
• [ ] :runner: :muscle: Support hiding/showing toolbar items using right-click vscode#150916 @jrieken
• [ ] :runner: Explore Continue On... support in core vscode#141293 @joyceerhl
• [x] Enable Window Controls Overlay by default vscode#157140 @sbatten @rzhao271
• [ ] :runner: Define default snippets for languages (empty file getting started) vscode#145929 @digitarald
• [x] Allow to open the merge editor in files with conflict markers vscode#153800 @jrieken @hediet
• [x] Fully support codicons in extension contributed walkthroughs vscode#154963 @lramos15
• [ ] :runner: Align trust and policy UX in settings editor with other indicators vscode#157564 @rzhao271 @sandy081
• [ ] :runner: Support actions on quick pick categories vscode#149057 @TylerLeonhardt @daviddossett
• [ ] :runner: Unify toggle UX in input fields throughout the workbench vscode#156179 @Tyriar @misolori

Web

• [ ] :runner: Continue translations in the web vscode#82595 @Tylerleonhardt
• [x] Missing translations in File-related dialogs vscode#150908 @TylerLeonhardt
• [x] Improve VS Code WASI implementation vscode#154797 @dbaeumer

Code Editor

• [x] Introduce the custom widget for code actions vscode#152913 @justschen
• [x] Use custom widget to improve UX around distinguishing code action groupings (icons, separators) vscode#132109 @justschen
• [ ] :runner: Support sticky scroll vscode#26757 @aiday-mar @jrieken
• [x] Reliable removal of conflict markers in merge editor @hediet
• [ ] :runner: Support snippets in workspace edits vscode#145374 @jrieken
• [x] Support opening a merge editor through an extension vscode#153213 @lramos15

Notebook Editor

• [x] Re-render outputs when missing renderer extensions are installed vscode#157689 @rebornix
• [x] Restore view state for cells from redundant fs file change event vscode#157695 @rebornix
• [ ] :muscle: Align editor find widget with the notebook find widget vscode#144851 @rebornix
• [ ] :muscle: Show changes in the overview ruler of the notebook diff editor vscode#146224 @rebornix
• [x] Improve rendering cell editors that have horizontal scrollbars vscode#153708 @roblourens
• [ ] :muscle: Explore improving files search results for notebooks vscode#95275 @roblourens

  Jupyter Notebooks

• [x] Contributions to the vscode-jupyter extension vscode-jupyter#11064 team

Custom Views

• [x] Support customize custom view height vscode#122283 @alexr00
• [x] Disable tree items when enablement clause on linked command is false vscode#102794 @benibenj
• [x] Pass selected tree item context to view/title commands vscode#42903 @benibenj
• [ ] :runner: Allow tree items to have optional checkboxes vscode#116141 @benibenj

Comments

• [x] Comments view should have ability to filter by resolved/unresolved vscode#150958 @alexr00
• [x] Investigate improving commenting area for diffs vscode#115808 @alexr00
• [x] Provide context menu on comment threads vscode#151533 @alexr00

Languages

Python

• [x] Contributions to the python extension vscode-python#19650 @brettcannon team

JavaScript/TypeScript

• [ ] :hand: Support TS project-wide intellisense on web typescript#47600 @mjbvz
• [ ] :hand: Explore automatic type acquisition on web typescript#45314 @mjbvz
• [x] :muscle: Tooling for generating/hierarchies of tsconfig.json files vscode-languageserver-node#1026 @dbaeumer
• [x] Adopt TypeScript version 4.8 vscode#157527 @mjbvz
• [x] Enable TS Server plugins on web vscode#140455 @mjbvz

Markdown

• [ ] :runner: Stabilize DocumentPasteEditProvider API to support pasting images vscode#30066 @mjbvz

JSON

• [ ] :runner: Sort JSON properties alphabetically vscode#155312 @aiday-mar @aeschli

Debug

• [ ] :muscle: Remove special treatment of extension debugging in VS Code (Prototype extension debugging in a clean environment) vscode#126737 @weinand

DAP

• [ ] :runner: Starting new debug session from within a debug adapter debug-adapter-protocol#79 @weinand @roblourens @connor4312
• [x] Specify unit of DAP "character position" debug-adapter-protocol#285 @weinand @connor4312

js-debug

• [ ] :muscle: Automatically create debug config with a "dry run" vscode-js-debug#1214 @connor4312
• [ ] :muscle: :hand: Explore creating a debug config for a terminal command vscode#150460 @connor4312

Terminal

• [x] Finalize custom shell integration sequences to allow other shells/REPLs to implement vscode#155639 @tyriar @meganrogge
• [ ] :runner: :muscle: Support custom terminal markers vscode#157026 @meganrogge @tyriar
• [ ] :muscle: Support shipping and automatic activation of bash and zsh completions on macOS when shell integration is enabled vscode#155733 @tyriar @meganrogge
• [x] Underline style and color support vscode#156983 @tyriar
• [x] Fix blurriness in terminal when not using a round zoom factor vscode#85154 @tyriar
• [x] Smooth scroll support vscode#125950 @tyriar
• [x] Investigate support for pinned commands vscode#154388 @meganrogge

Tasks

• [x] Improve reconnecting tasks on window reload query @meganrogge

Source Control

• [x] Polish SCM commit button query @lszomoru
• [x] Ensure Commit button remembers the last state per repo so that Commit and Create PR could be the default @lszomoru
• [ ] :runner: Support git with private key password vscode#13680 @lszomoru

API

• API finalization: query @jrieken @mjbvz
• API proposals: query @jrieken @mjbvz
• [ ] :runner: Continue finalization of remaining proposed notebook API vscode#149861 @mjbvz @rebornix @roblourens
• [ ] :runner: Support context menu actions in webviews vscode#54285 @mjbvz

Extension Contributions

• [x] Improvements to the Remote extensions vscode-remote-release#7033 @tanhakabir @chrmarti @aeschli
• [x] GitHub Repositories: query @joyceerhl
• [ ] :runner: Improve the experience with multi-root workspaces in Live Preview vscode-livepreview#143 @andreamah
• [x] Fully localise the Live Preview extension vscode-livepreview#221 @andreamah
• [ ] :hand: Fix preview of forwarded ports in Codespaces for Simple Browser and Live Preview vscode-livepreview#111 @andreamah @mjbvz
• [x] Create Issue flow should never lose data vscode-pull-request-github#1988 @alexr00
• [ ] :runner: Try to link PRs to issues mentioned in the PR title vscode-pull-request-github#3739 @alexr00
• [x] Show notifications when there are changes to pull requests vscode-pull-request-github#1128 @benibenj
• [x] Display colors for labels vscode-pull-request-github#1193 @benibenj

Install / Update

• [ ] :hand: Integrate with the Windows 11 explorer context menu vscode#127365 @deepak1556

Engineering

• [ ] :red_circle: Adopt transpilation in dev-flow for watch tasks @jrieken
• [ ] :runner: Explore using swc for transpilation vscode#150025 @jrieken
• [x] Fix auto-generation of ILocalizedString for strings from extension package.json vscode#153538 @TylerLeonhardt

Electron

• [x] Enable sandboxing for Insiders by default vscode#156440 @bpasero
• [x] Windows layout styling issue on launch vscode#146683 @rzhao271 @deepak1556
• [x] Investigate impact of WS_THICKFRAME for frameless windows vscode#158065 @rzhao271 @deepak1556
• [x] WCO on Windows has unaligned restore button vscode#157086 @rzhao271 @deepak1556
• [x] WCO on Windows don't respond to touch events electron#34364 @deepak1556
• [x] Electron 19 update query @deepak1556 @bpasero
• [x] Contribute the utility process and APIs to Electron vscode#154007 @deepak1556
• [ ] :runner: White flashing when opening a new window vscode#132339 @rzhao271 @deepak1556
• [x] Add proprietary codecs to FFmpeg vscode#156558 @isidorn @deepak1556

Documentation

• [ ] :runner: Review and update Configure C++ Debugging topic vscode-docs#5518 @gregvanl
• [ ] :runner: Investigate pulling out advanced, reference, and troubleshooting content from Terminal Basics vscode-docs#4809 @gregvanl @tyriar

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Deferred

• [ ] Add configurations for search view decorations vscode#157462 @andreamah
• [ ] Explore showing search results as a tree view vscode#20224 @andreamah
• [ ] Reload extension host on server side when connected from web and locale is changed vscode#151000 @TylerLeonhardt
• [ ] Provide a web-shell with pluggable parser and multi-line editing capabilities shell-engine-js#1 @tyriar
• [ ] Publish a new version of the Monaco editor monaco-editor @hediet
• [ ] Support HTML headers in the notebook outline vscode#134853 @roblourens
• [ ] vscode.open on document link doesn't accept additional arguments vscode#154993 @bpasero
• [ ] Exploration: Adopt utility process for shared process vscode#154050 @bpasero
• [ ] Parcel: Support simple glob patterns for ignore rules watcher#64 @bpasero
• [ ] :red_circle: Navigate to test terminal output @connor4312
• [ ] Auto run tests vscode#134941 @connor4312
• [ ] Provide support for Go to Test/Go to Test Subject vscode#126932 @connor4312
• [ ] Explore improvements to Extensions view #151599 @misolori
• [ ] Support auto-complete of Powershell commands vscode#154662 @tyriar
• [ ] WCO on Windows occludes dev tools electron#34129 @deepak1556
• [ ] Support contributing a diff provider for the merge editor vscode#84981 @hediet
• [ ] Explore accepting parts of an inline completion proposal vscode#140708 @hediet
• [ ] Modernize the Monaco editor playground monaco-editor#3247 @hediet
• [ ] Merge Editor: Provide a 4-editor view which also shows the base editor vscode#155277 @hediet

[fireattack]

VS Code insider 1.71 doesn't seem to run at all on Win7. Likely due to newer version of Electron.

Maybe it's just a build thing (like the stable version will be built with lower version of Electron), otherwise I think it's worth a mention. I didn't find anything about retiring Win 7 entirely (I know it's already not officially supported, but it still runs fine up to 1.70) in related article or changelogs so far.

(Please let me know if it's the wrong place to discuss this.)

[bpasero]

@fireattack can you open an issue please, thanks!

[fm-swe]

"Explore showing search results as a tree view" this is one of the features you lost 90% of our developers to jetbrains products in the past 5 years, while the rest still struggles with previously used ones like eclipse, netbeans, etc. occasionally using vscode and switching back because stuff like nested git repositories and tree view search not working is just annoying when it worked 20 years ago in other products

[fredrikaverpil]

Auto run tests https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/134941 @connor4312

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[mjbvz]

Closing as the August release (1.71) has shipped!