Iteration Plan for April 2023

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

Endgame

April 24, 2023: Endgame begins
April 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
: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] Improve command palette input box screen reader experience vscode#176081 @TylerLeonhardt
[x] Inline suggestions are read twice by screen reader vscode#177696 @hediet
[x] Set Selection Anchor and Select from Anchor to Cursor does not work in a11y terminal buffer vscode#177029 @meganrogge
[ ] :runner: Notebook output accessibility vscode#178630 @amunger
[x] allowNavigateToSurroundingCells should be false when screen reader is detected vscode#176286 @meganrogge
[x] Notebook cell complete audio cue didn't play if kernel was selected in same execution action vscode#176284 @meganrogge
[ ] :runner: Accessibility issues, see query @meganrogge @isidorn team
[ ] :runner: Custom dialog does not properly return focus to webView vscode#170442 @sbatten @mjbvz

Workbench

[x] Built-in Profiles vscode#166359 @isidorn @sandy081
[ ] :runner: Support Dev Containers and WSL in new Connect to... experience on Welcome Page vscode-remote-release#8251 @bhavyaus @aeschli @chrmarti
[ ] :runner: Improve the keybinding recording widget vscode#178042 vscode#179015 vscode#179018 @ulugbekna
[ ] :runner: Explore support for multiple GitHub accounts vscode#127967 @tylerleonhardt
[x] Address performance regression in insiders vscode#177257 @bpasero
[x] Explore flatten "Continue On" options in Terminal welcome view vscode#179013 @joyceerhl
[x] Improve "Continue On" sign-in flow vscode#179012 @joyceerhl
[ ] :runner: Support roaming open editors and notebook kernel state in "Continue On" vscode#179898 @joyceerhl @rebornix
[ ] :runner: Change default light and dark themes to the v2 themes vscode#179688 @aeschli @daviddossett

Code Editor

[x] Roll out async tokenization and add correctness assertions behind setting vscode#179133 @hediet
[x] Deprecate smart diffing algorithm in favor of experimental diffing algorithm vscode#164583 @hediet
[ ] :muscle: Collapse unchanged regions in diff vscode#3562 @hediet
[x] Accept inline completion words across lines vscode#172162 @hediet
[x] Allow inline providers to opt in to showing inline completions at the same time as completions vscode#179134 @hediet
[ ] :runner: Make editor hovers resizable vscode#14165 @aiday-mar
[ ] :runner: Allow using the color picker without a color region vscode#52364 @aiday-mar
[x] Monaco Editor Release 0.37.0 @hediet

Notebook Editor

[x] Allow toggling scrollable outputs per cell vscode#174951 @amunger
[x] Polish global search options for open notebooks vscode#164926 @andreamah
[ ] :runner: Static resources fail to load in Notebook renderer with 401 error vscode#175033 @mjbvz
[ ] :muscle: Align closing behavior of the Interactive Window with Untitled Files vscode#172974 @amunger
[x] Support dynamic profile switching vscode#179224 @rebornix @bpasero
[x] Explore supporting replace while markdown cells are in preview mode vscode#179320 @rebornix

Jupyter Notebooks

[x] Contributions to the vscode-jupyter extension vscode-jupyter#13250 team

WebAssembly Runtime Support

[x] Finish up multi thread support for WASM-WASI threads vscode-wasm#45 @dbaeumer
[ ] :runner: Convert Python WASM-WASI extension to the new library extension vscode-python-web-wasm#47 @dbaeumer
[ ] :runner: Explore provide a web-shell shell-engine-js#1 @dbaeumer @tyriar

Languages

Python

[x] Contributions to the python extension vscode-python#20971 @brettcannon team

Python WebAssembly Runtime Support

[x] How do users find packages that work in CPython WASI? issue; @brettcannon

JavaScript/TypeScript

[ ] :runner: Automatic type acquisition on the web vscode#172887 @mjbvz
[ ] :runner: Project-wide IntelliSense on the web vscode#170920 @mjbvz
[x] TypeScript 5.1 move to existing file support typescript#29988 @mjbvz
[x] TypeScript 5.1 jsx mirror cursor support typescript#51832 @mjbvz

Language Server Protocol

[ ] :runner: Investigate to extract a base protocol definition out of the LS protocol 1707 @dbaeumer
[ ] :runner: Support that servers can read from remote file systems 1264 @rchiodo / @dbaeumer

Source Control

[x] Git Status Updates Are Blocking vscode#168453 @lszomoru
[x] SCM - Add document property to expose the text document vscode#171504 @lszomoru
[x] Handle push errors more gracefully vscode#178990 @lszomoru
[ ] :black_large_square: vscode#179000 Exploration: Changes editor @lszomoru
[ ] :muscle: Surface Dependabot alerts in workbench vscode#178991 @lszomoru

Terminal

[x] Allow specifying workspace-specific environment variables via EnvironmentVariableCollection vscode#171173 @karrtikr @tyriar
[x] Allow to provide description to environment collection API vscode#171108 @karrtikr
[ ] :runner: Finalize proposed APIs for environment workspace collection vscode#171108 @karrtikr
[ ] :runner: Allow EnvironmentVariableCollection API to apply changes via shell integration vscode#179476 @tyriar @karrtikr

Testing

[x] Expose selection and profile of the test explorer vscode#179065 @connor4312
[x] Allow to watch subsets of tests vscode#178973 @connor4312
[x] Better indicators for what tests are running continuously vscode#178973 @connor4312
[ ] :muscle: Support for ANSI colors in test output vscode#151964 @connor4312
[ ] :muscle: Start drafting a retired test item API vscode#134970 @connor4312

vscode.dev

[ ] :muscle: Opening vscode.dev should not require a browser reload to update web extensions vscode#174682 @sandy081

API

[x] API finalization: query @jrieken @mjbvz
[x] API proposals: query @jrieken @mjbvz
[ ] :runner: Explore support for extensions to provide additional data to the issue reporter vscode#46726 @TylerLeonhardt

Extensions

[x] Show the publisher in notifications whenever we recommend extensions 179004 @sandy081

Extension Contributions

[x] Improvements to the Remote extensions @eleanorjboyd @chrmarti vscode-remote-release#8314 @aeschli @joyceerhl @connor4312
[ ] :runner: Exploration: Re-think PR creation flow vscode-pull-request-github#4403 @alexr00 @hbons
[x] Add Team Reviewers to Pull Request vscode-pull-request-github#1126 @alexr00
[x] :muscle: Respect git's pullBeforeCheckout setting for githubPullRequests.postCreate vscode-pull-request-github#4450 @alexr00
[x] GHPR: Make it very obvious when the rate limit has been hit vscode-pull-request-github#4546 @alexr00

Engineering

[ ] :runner: :muscle: Adopt utility process in terminal/pty host vscode#175335 @tyriar @bpasero
[x] Sandboxing: Investigate increased extension host crash rate in stable vscode-internalbacklog#3456 @bpasero @deepak1556 @digitarald

Electron

[x] :black_large_square: Update to Electron 22 vscode#166265 @deepak1556 @bpasero @rzhao271

Deferred

[ ] Explore alternative wording for "Continue On" explanations vscode#180106 @hbons
[ ] Exploration: Cross-profile settings and extensions vscode#176813 vscode#157492@sandy081
[ ] Show existing tunnels on Welcome page in vscode.dev vscode#179687 @bhavyaus @aeschli @connor4312
[ ] Support experimental contextual non-modal dialogs to educate users on web experiences vscode#179401 @bhavyaus @joyceerhl @daviddossett
[ ] Walkthrough images load slowly vscode#166890 @bhavyaus
[ ] UX to alert users of a slow remote connection vscode#178553 @bpasero
[ ] Support scrollable outputs for streaming text vscode#177721 @amunger @mjbvz
[ ] Explore smart global search for notebooks in the workspace vscode#173726 @andreamah
[ ] Explore prompting to enable Cloud Changes on save in web vscode#179014 @joyceerhl
[ ] Investigation: Azure DevOps multi-tenant support vscode-remote-repositories-github#241 @lszomoru
[ ] Improving the developer experience for the CLI within the vscode repo vscode#171515 @aeschli @connor4312
[ ] Orca can't be stopped in native dialogs vscode#121811 @deepak1556
[ ] Explore improvements to the extensions list vscode#151599
[ ] Support external terminals as a default for WSL sessions vscode#167865 @tyriar
[ ] Continue pwsh autocomplete vscode#154662 @tyriar
[ ] :hand: Add elided text (editor core subset of vscode#170447) @hediet @alexdima
[ ] :hand: :black_large_square: PGO for VSCode Desktop vscode#170931 @deepak1556
[ ] :muscle: Right Click acting abnormal vscode#113175 @deepak1556
[ ] Add support for running macros vscode#871 @ulugbekna
[ ] Add support for recording macros vscode#4490 @ulugbekna

I really hope we got this one right... The last time I had so much interference in making educated decisions in continuing my business in merchandising do to problems with collecting accurate data I'm hoping with this one I can receive an email attach the calendar and store list doc with the ability to add to calendar the gps from store list doc... And stop the ability to fudge the map information For expenses etc

On Sun, Apr 2, 2023, 4:24 PM Kai Maetzel @.***> wrote:

This plan captures our work in April. This is a 5-week iteration. We will ship in early May. Endgame

April 24, 2023: Endgame begins

April 28, 2023: Endgame done

The endgame details for this iteration are tracked here https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues?q=is%3Aissue+label%3Aendgame-plan+milestone%3A%22April+2023%22 . 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

🔴 Improve command palette input box screen reader experience @TylerLeonhardt https://github.com/TylerLeonhardt

Inline suggestions are read twice by screen reader vscode#177696 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/177696 @meganrogge https://github.com/meganrogge

Set Selection Anchor and Select from Anchor to Cursor does not work in a11y terminal buffer vscode#177029 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/177029 @meganrogge https://github.com/meganrogge

Notebook output accessibility vscode#178630 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/178630 @amunger https://github.com/amunger

allowNavigateToSurroundingCells should be false when screen reader is detected vscode#176286 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/176286 @meganrogge https://github.com/meganrogge

Notebook cell complete audio cue didn't play if kernel was selected in same execution action vscode#176284 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/176284 @meganrogge https://github.com/meganrogge

🏃 Accessibility issues, see query https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Aaccessibility+milestone%3A%22April+2023%22 @meganrogge https://github.com/meganrogge @isidorn https://github.com/isidorn team

Custom dialog does not properly return focus to webView vscode#170442 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/170442 @sbatten https://github.com/sbatten @mjbvz https://github.com/mjbvz

UX

🔴 Explore alternative wording for "Continue On" explanations @hbons https://github.com/hbons

Workbench

🏃 Built-in Profiles vscode#166359 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/166359 @isidorn https://github.com/isidorn @sandy081 https://github.com/sandy081

🔴 Exploration: Cross-profile settings and extensions @sandy081 https://github.com/sandy081

🔴 Support Dev Containers and WSL in new Connect to... experience on Welcome Page @bhavyaus https://github.com/bhavyaus @aeschli https://github.com/aeschli @chrmarti https://github.com/chrmarti

🔴 Show existing tunnels on Welcome page in vscode.dev @bhavyaus https://github.com/bhavyaus @aeschli https://github.com/aeschli @connor4312 https://github.com/connor4312

🔴 Support experimental contextual non-modal dialogs to educate users on web experiences @bhavyaus https://github.com/bhavyaus @joyceerhl https://github.com/joyceerhl @daviddossett https://github.com/daviddossett

Walkthrough images load slowly vscode#166890 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/166890 @bhavyaus https://github.com/bhavyaus

⚫ Add support for running macros vscode#871 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/871 @ulugbekna https://github.com/ulugbekna

⚫ Add support for recording macros vscode#4490 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/4490 @ulugbekna https://github.com/ulugbekna

🏃 Explore support for multiple GitHub accounts vscode#127967 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/127967 @TylerLeonhardt https://github.com/TylerLeonhardt

Address performance regression in insiders vscode#177257 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/177257 @bpasero https://github.com/bpasero

UX to alert users of a slow remote connection vscode#178553 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/178553 @bpasero https://github.com/bpasero

🔴 Explore flatten "Continue On" options in Terminal welcome view @joyceerhl https://github.com/joyceerhl

🔴 Improve "Continue On" sign-in flow @joyceerhl https://github.com/joyceerhl

🔴 Support roaming open editors and notebook kernel state in "Continue On" @joyceerhl https://github.com/joyceerhl @rebornix https://github.com/rebornix

Code Editor

🔴 Roll out async tokenization and add correctness assertions behind setting @hediet https://github.com/hediet

Deprecate smart diffing algorithm in favor of experimental diffing algorithm vscode#164583 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/164583 @hediet https://github.com/hediet

💪 Collapse unchanged regions in diff vscode#3562 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/3562 @hediet https://github.com/hediet

Accept inline completion words across lines vscode#172162 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/172162 @hediet https://github.com/hediet

🔴 Allow inline providers to opt in to showing inline completions at the same time as completions @hediet https://github.com/hediet

🏃 Make editor hovers resizeable vscode#14165 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/14165 @aiday-mar https://github.com/aiday-mar

Monaco Editor Release 0.37.0 https://github.com/microsoft/monaco-editor/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#0370 @hediet https://github.com/hediet

Notebook Editor

Allow toggling scrollable outputs per cell vscode#174951 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/174951 @amunger https://github.com/amunger

🔴 Support scrollable outputs for streaming text @amunger https://github.com/amunger @mjbvz https://github.com/mjbvz

Polish global search options for open notebooks vscode#164926 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/164926 @andreamah https://github.com/andreamah

Explore smart global search for notebooks in the workspace vscode#173726 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/173726 @andreamah https://github.com/andreamah

Static resources fail to load in Notebook renderer with 401 error vscode#175033 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/175033 @mjbvz https://github.com/mjbvz

💪 Align closing behavior of the Interactive Window with Untitled Files vscode#172974 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/172974 @amunger https://github.com/amunger

🔴 💪 Explore supporting replace while markdown cells are in preview mode @rebornix https://github.com/rebornix

Jupyter Notebooks

🔴 🏃 Contributions to the vscode-jupyter extension team

WebAssembly Runtime Support

🏃 Finish up multi thread support for WASM-WASI threads https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-wasm/issues/45 @dbaeumer https://github.com/dbaeumer

Convert Python WASM-WASI extension to the new library extension https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-python-web-wasm/issues/47 @dbaeumer https://github.com/dbaeumer

Explore provide a web-shell shell-engine-js#1 https://github.com/microsoft/shell-engine-js/issues/1 @dbaeumer https://github.com/dbaeumer @Tyriar https://github.com/Tyriar

Languages Python

🔴 🏃 Contributions to the python extension @brettcannon https://github.com/brettcannon team

Python WebAssembly Runtime Support

🏃 ⬛ How do users find packages that work in CPython WASI? issue https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-python-web-wasm/issues/42; @brettcannon https://github.com/brettcannon

JavaScript/TypeScript

🏃 Automatic type acquisition on the web vscode#172887 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/172887 @mjbvz https://github.com/mjbvz

🏃 Project-wide IntelliSense on the web vscode#170920 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/170920 @mjbvz https://github.com/mjbvz

🏃 TypeScript 5.1 move to existing file support typescript#29988 https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/29988 @mjbvz https://github.com/mjbvz

🏃 TypeScript 5.1 jsx mirror cursor support typescript#51832 https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/51832 @mjbvz https://github.com/mjbvz

Source Control

Git Status Updates Are Blocking vscode#168453 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/168453 @lszomoru https://github.com/lszomoru

SCM - Add document property to expose the text document vscode#171504 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/171504 @lszomoru https://github.com/lszomoru

🔴 Handle push errors more gracefully @lszomoru https://github.com/lszomoru

🔴 ⬛ Exploration: Changes editor @lszomoru https://github.com/lszomoru

🔴 💪 Surface Dependabot alerts in workbench @lszomoru https://github.com/lszomoru

Terminal

🏃 Improvements to the environment collection API vscode#171173 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/171173 vscode#171108 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/171108 @karrtikr https://github.com/karrtikr @Tyriar https://github.com/Tyriar

🏃 Provide API to set the terminal title and description vscode#171175 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/171175 @karrtikr https://github.com/karrtikr @Tyriar https://github.com/Tyriar

Testing

🔴 Expose selection and profile of the test explorer @connor4312 https://github.com/connor4312

🔴 Allow to watch subsets of tests @connor4312 https://github.com/connor4312

🔴 Better indicators for what tests are running continuously @connor4312 https://github.com/connor4312

🔴 💪 Support for ANSI colors in test output @connor4312 https://github.com/connor4312

🔴 💪 Start drafting a retired test item API @connor4312 https://github.com/connor4312

Comments

None.

vscode.dev

Opening vscode.dev should not require a browser reload to update web extensions vscode#174682 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/174682 @sandy081 https://github.com/sandy081

🔴 Explore prompting to enable Cloud Changes on save in web @joyceerhl https://github.com/joyceerhl

Investigation: Azure DevOps multi-tenant support vscode-remote-repositories-github#241 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-remote-repositories-github/issues/241 @lszomoru https://github.com/lszomoru

API

🏃 API finalization: query <https:/github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+milestone%3A%22April+2023%22+label%3A%22api-finalization%22> @jrieken https://github.com/jrieken @mjbvz https://github.com/mjbvz

🏃 API proposals: query https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+milestone%3A%22April+2023%22+label%3A%22api-proposal%22 @jrieken https://github.com/jrieken @mjbvz https://github.com/mjbvz

🏃 Explore support for extensions to provide additional data to the issue reporter vscode#46726 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/46726 @TylerLeonhardt https://github.com/TylerLeonhardt

Extensions

🔴 Show the publisher in notifications whenever we recommend extensions @sandy081 https://github.com/sandy081

Extension Contributions

🔴 🏃 Improvements to the Remote extensions @eleanorjboyd https://github.com/eleanorjboyd @chrmarti https://github.com/chrmarti @aeschli https://github.com/aeschli @joyceerhl https://github.com/joyceerhl @connor4312 https://github.com/connor4312

🏃 Exploration: Re-think PR creation flow vscode-pull-request-github#4403 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-pull-request-github/issues/4403 @alexr00 https://github.com/alexr00 @hbons https://github.com/hbons

✋ 🏃 Add Team Reviewers to Pull Request vscode-pull-request-github#1126 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-pull-request-github/issues/1126 @alexr00 https://github.com/alexr00

💪 Respect git's pullBeforeCheckout setting for githubPullRequests.postCreate vscode-pull-request-github#4450 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-pull-request-github/issues/4450 @alexr00 https://github.com/alexr00

🏃 GHPR: Make it very obvious when the rate limit has been hit vscode-pull-request-github#4546 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-pull-request-github/issues/4546 @alexr00 https://github.com/alexr00

Language Server Protocol

Investigate to extract a base protocol definition out of the LS protocol 1707 https://github.com/microsoft/language-server-protocol/issues/1707 @dbaeumer https://github.com/dbaeumer

Support that servers can read from remote file systems 1264 https://github.com/microsoft/language-server-protocol/issues/1264 @rchiodo https://github.com/rchiodo / @dbaeumer https://github.com/dbaeumer

Performance

None.

Install

None.

Engineering

Adopt utility process in terminal/pty host vscode#175335 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/175335 @Tyriar https://github.com/Tyriar @bpasero https://github.com/bpasero

Sandboxing: Investigate increased extension host crash rate in stable vscode-internalbacklog#3456 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-internalbacklog/issues/3456 @bpasero https://github.com/bpasero @deepak1556 https://github.com/deepak1556 @digitarald https://github.com/digitarald

Improving the developer experience for the CLI within the vscode repo vscode#171515 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/171515 @aeschli https://github.com/aeschli @connor4312 https://github.com/connor4312

Electron

🏃 ⬛ Update to Electron 22 vscode#166265 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/166265 @deepak1556 https://github.com/deepak1556 @bpasero https://github.com/bpasero @rzhao271 https://github.com/rzhao271

💪 Orca can't be stopped in native dialogs vscode#121811 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/121811 @deepak1556 https://github.com/deepak1556

Documentation

Review and update Terminal Basics (git bash setup from verbatims) vscode-docs#6108 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-docs/issues/6108 @gregvanl https://github.com/gregvanl

Deferred

🏃 Explore improvements to the extensions list vscode#151599 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/151599

Support external terminals as a default for WSL sessions vscode#167865 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/167865 @Tyriar https://github.com/Tyriar

Continue pwsh autocomplete vscode#154662 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/154662 @Tyriar https://github.com/Tyriar

✋ Add elided text (editor core subset of vscode#170447 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/170447) @hediet https://github.com/hediet @alexdima https://github.com/alexdima

✋ ⬛ PGO for VSCode Desktop vscode#170931 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/170931 @deepak1556 https://github.com/deepak1556

💪 Right Click acting abnormal vscode#113175 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/113175 @deepak1556 https://github.com/deepak1556

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