Iteration Plan for July 2024

[kieferrm]

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

Endgame

• July 22, 2024: Endgame begins
• July 26, 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

• [x] Accessibility issues, see query @meganrogge team

Workbench

• [x] Add url handling for settings vscode#212079 @alexr00
• [x] Polish Profiles Editor UX vscode#218162 @sandy081
• [x] Support an icon button style in quick pick vscode#221397 @TylerLeonhardt
• [x] Support panel at the top vscode#50984 @benibenj
• [ ] :muscle: Tree: Support contributable find providers vscode#212077 @benibenj
• [x] Improve basic auth proxy support vscode#220034 @chrmarti

Code Editor

• [ ] :runner: Investigation: Use tree-sitter for grammar colorization vscode#210475 @alexr00
• [x] Allow editor.codeActionsOnSave for autoSave afterDelay vscode#200881 @justschen
• [x] Improve where the lightbulb widget appears in the editor and notebook vscode#202767 @justschen
• [x] Improve jumping when Code Lenses appear vscode#216824 @hediet
• [x] Improve the diff editor when rendered in narrow containers vscode#221245 @hediet
• [ ] :runner: Adopt EditContext vscode@207700 @aiday-mar @hediet
• [ ] :runner: Release Monaco Editor @aiday-mar @hediet

Notebook Editor

• [x] Command to Toggle comment for multiple cells vscode#142437 @Yoyokrazy
• [ ] :runner: Proposal for restructuring and cleaning up the context menu in Notebook vscode#219240 @Yoyokrazy
• [ ] :muscle: Explore supporting cmd+d across multiple cells vscode#141673 @Yoyokrazy
• [ ] :muscle: Improve rendering of large code cell editor (e.g., sticky execution count) vscode#209154 @rebornix
• [ ] :muscle: Explore hiding/collapsing unchanged cells in Notebook Diff Editor vscode#174152 @DonJayamanne

Search

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

Issue Reporter

• [ ] :runner: Continue migrating desktop issue report to auxiliary service approach vscode#213332 @justschen
• [x] Incorporate issue reporter participation into yo code generator vscode#220969 @justschen

Languages

Python

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

Language Server Protocol

• [x] Investigate into delaying open event to avoid sending open/close notification pairs to the server when VS Code reads file contents #lsp-848 @dbaeumer

Testing

• [ ] :hand: Finalize attributable test coverage API vscode#212196 @connor4312
• [x] Support stack traces in test messages vscode#214488 @connor4312
• [x] Explore support for related code vscode#126932 @connor4312

Debug

Debug Adapter Protocol

• [ ] :muscle: Explore green thread support debug-adapter-protocol#339 @connor4312

Terminal

• [x] Adopt esbuild and ship ESM module with xterm.js xterm.js#2878 @tyriar
• [x] Adopt VS Code scrollbar in xterm.js vscode#216521 @tyriar
• [ ] :runner: Finalize shellIntegration API vscode#145234 @tyriar
• [ ] :runner: Iterating on pwsh suggest and PromptInputModel vscode#154662 @tyriar

Source Control

• [ ] :runner: Graph visualization for Incoming/Ougoing view vscode#215439 @lszomoru
• [x] Adopt shell integration API for git commands vscode#220995 @lszomoru @tyriar

API

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

Extensions

• [x] Print packaged extension contents on package/publish vscode-vsce#995 @benibenj
• [x] Polish extension auto-update mechanism vscode#219720 @sandy081

Extension Contributions

• [x] Support reverting merged PR changes vscode-pull-request-github#2103 @alexr00

Engineering

• [ ] :runner: Explore AMD to ESM migration vscode#160416 @jrieken @bpasero

Electron

• [x] Electron 30 upgrade vscode#214394 @deepak1556
• [ ] :runner: V8: Support usage of external array buffers for embedders in sandbox mode chromium#14585 @deepak1556
• [x] Adopt basic auth support for net api in utility process vscode#212949 @deepak1556

Documentation

• [ ] :muscle: Update Getting Started experience doc vsocde-docs#7359 @ntrogh

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Deferred

• [ ] Explore GPU rendering of the code editor vscode#221145 @tyriar @hediet
• [ ] Support Exceptions for result return types #wasm-177 @dbaeumer
• [ ] Add SCM accessibility help dialog vscode#203577 @lszomoru @meganrogge

[gjsjohnmurray]

• July 24, 2024: Endgame begins
• July 26, 2024: Endgame done

@kieferrm previous endgames have typically started on a Monday. Any reason for this one showing a Wednesday start?

[kieferrm]

• July 24, 2024: Endgame begins
• July 26, 2024: Endgame done

@kieferrm previous endgames have typically started on a Monday. Any reason for this one showing a Wednesday start?

Good catch. Thank you.