Iteration Plan for May 2024

[kieferrm]

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

Endgame

• May 27, 2024: Endgame begins
• May 31, 2024: 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

• [ ] :runner: Accessibility issues, see query @meganrogge team
• [ ] :muscle: Investigate VS Code speech commands vscode#209906 @meganrogge @bpasero
• [ ] SCM accessibility improvements vscode#203577 @lszomoru @meganrogge

Workbench

• [ ] :runner: Investigate text-to-speech in panel/inline chat interfaces vscode#196261 @bpasero
• [x] Tabs multi select vscode#119327 @benibenj
• [ ] Editor action: option to always show vscode#209962 @benibenj
• [ ] Tree: Support contributable find providers vscode#212077 @benibenj
• [ ] Add url handling for settings vscode#212079 @alexr00
• [ ] :runner: Profile polish Issues @sandy081
• [ ] :muscle: Deep folder settings vscode#32693 @sandy081

Code Editor

• [ ] :runner: Improve auto indentation in the editor vscode#206891 @aiday-mar @hediet
  • [ ] Skip lines that are part of a multi-line string (or comment) vscode#209859 @aiday-mar @hediet
  • [ ] Strip comments from code before evaluating regexes vscode#209861 @aiday-mar @hediet
  • [ ] Explore removing brackets from strings before evaluating regexes vscode#209862 @aiday-mar @hediet
• [ ] Make expandable hover content accessible for SR users vscode#207592 @aiday-mar @hediet
• [ ] :runner: Investigation: Use tree-sitter for grammar colorization vscode#210475 @alexr00
• [ ] Release the Monaco Editor @hediet

Notebook Editor

• [ ] Migrate Interactive window editor to notebook only vscode#154983 @amunger
• [ ] :runner: Experiment saving notebooks on extension host by default vscode#211730 @amunger
• [ ] :runner: Introduce notebook.format code actions to support notebook document formatting with Ruff and Black vscode#212381 @Yoyokrazy @rebornix
• [ ] Support Find in editor selection, selected cells, or sections in Notebook Find Widget vscode#209839 @Yoyokrazy
• [ ] Introduce NotebookDocumentChangeEvent#reason API for notebook document event filtering vscode#212063 @DonJayamanne
• [ ] Explore better handling of merge conflicts for .ipynb files vscode#160941 @DonJayamanne

Search

• [ ] :runner: Explore finalizing FileSearchProvider API vscode#73524 @andreamah
• [ ] :runner: Explore finalizing TextSearchProvider API vscode#59921 @andreamah

WebAssembly Support

• [x] Document how to use VS Code's component model tooling to use WASM services inside a VS Code extensions vscode-wasm#157 @dbaeumer

Issue Reporter

• [ ] :runner: Support the issue reporter in the web vscode#203247 @justschen
• [ ] :runner: Improve behaviour when multiple calls to the issue reporter are made vscode#208718 @justschen

Languages

Language Server Protocol

• [ ] :runner: Improve LSP implementation in regards to event handling @dbaeumer
• [ ] :runner: Add support for pull diagnostics in notebooks @dbaeumer
• [ ] Release new version of LSP @dbaeumer

Python

• [ ] :runner: Contributions to the Python extension, see plan @karthiknadig team

TypeScript

• [ ] :hand: Automatic type acquisition on the web vscode#172887 @mjbvz
• [ ] :runner: Support bringing along imports with copy paste typescript#50187 @mjbvz
• [ ] :runner: Reduce how often move code actions trigger the light bulb typescript#58387 @justschen

Testing

• [ ] :runner: Track which test generates which coverage information vscode#126932 @connor4312
• [x] Finalize the preserveFocus API vscode#209491 @connor4312

Debug

• [x] Expose current thread/stack frame id vscode#63943 @connor4312

API

• [ ] :runner: API proposals: query @jrieken @mjbvz
• [ ] :runner: API finalization: query @jrieken @mjbvz

Engineering

• [ ] Create startup memory efficiency performance test vscode#211837 @bpasero
• [ ] Decouple NLS from loader vscode#212542 @bpasero

Extensions

• [ ] :runner: Investigate high extension install error rate vscode#190233 @sandy081
• [x] Explore updating extension template to use esbuild vscode-generator-code#461 @aeschli
• [ ] Allow extension to contribute custom labels vscode#211632 @benibenj

Extension Contributions

• [ ] :runner: Improvements to the Remote extensions, see plan @roblourens @chrmarti @connor4312 @joyceerhl
• [ ] :runner: Adapt the new ESLint flat config support vscode-eslint#1644 @dbaeumer

Electron

• [ ] :runner: Electron 29 vscode#210467 @deepak1556
• [ ] :runner: V8: Support usage of external array buffers for embedders in sandbox mode chromium#14585 @deepak1556

Documentation

• [ ] Add Testing user guide vscode-docs#7208 @ntrogh

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Deferred

• [ ] Expose shell integration command knowledge to extensions vscode#145234 @tyriar
• [ ] Explore Terminal Buffer access for extensions vscode#207504 @tyriar