Iteration Plan for November 2024

[kieferrm]

This plan captures our work in November. This is a 6-week iteration in order to accommodate the Thanksgiving Holiday in the United States. We will ship in first half of December. The rest of December will be dedicated to our annual house keeping.

Endgame

• Dec 02, 2024: Endgame begins
• Dec 06, 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
🏃	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

• 🏃 Accessibility issues, see query @meganrogge team
• 🏃 Interactive window accessibility issues for SR users vscode#209140 @amunger

Workbench

• 🏃 Secondary sidebar improvements vscode#232965 @bpasero
• 🏃 Tree find widget should not render over the tree contents vscode#232987 @benibenj
• Async tree highlight mode should signal match count in folders vscode#232988 @benibenj
• Support finding folders in File Explorer using find widget vscode#232989 @benibenj

Code Editor

• 🏃 Investigation: Use tree-sitter for grammar colorization vscode#210475 @alexr00 @hediet
• 🏃 Explore GPU rendering of the code editor vscode#221145 @Tyriar @hediet
• 🏃 Make EditContext the default input strategy vscode#228093 @aiday-mar @hediet
• Make available an experimental initial version of Expandable Hover vscode#232685 @aiday-mar @mjbvz
• Enable by default the default color decorators vscode#233083 @aiday-mar
• Expand line comments when pressing Enter vscode#180551 @aiday-mar

Notebook Editor

• 🏃 Multi cursor across cells: support selection highlights and select all find occurrences vscode#232866 @Yoyokrazy
• Support run cells in section from markdown cells vscode#232865 @Yoyokrazy
• Show last executed time on cell status bar vscode#168792 @Yoyokrazy
• Improve notebook model diff algorithm (cell id, execution count, etc) vscode#227928 @DonJayamanne

Jupyter Notebooks

• Improve Context key for execution/debug/run-by-line actions vscode-jupyter#16189 @Yoyokrazy
• 🔴 💪 Explore kernel persistence for Remote environments @DonJayamanne

Languages

Python

• 🏃 Contributions to the Python extension, see plan @karthiknadig team

TypeScript

• Send Custom Requests To TypeScript Language Service Plugins vscode#218275 @mjbvz

Authentication

• 🏃 Adopt Broker flow in Microsoft Auth provider via MSAL-node vscode#229431 @TylerLeonhardt

Source Control

• Add SCM accessibility help dialog vscode#203577 @lszomoru @meganrogge
• Support for blame inline decorations vscode#203841 @lszomoru
• 💪 Support for ref context actions vscode#232992 @lszomoru

Testing

• Finalize attributable test coverage API vscode#212196 @connor4312
• Improve how failed tests are being displayed @connor4312 vscode#233454
• Improve continuous run UI vscode#210848 @connor4312

Debug

• Find in output vscode#225417 @meganrogge

Terminal

• 🏃 Add support for terminal suggest in zsh/bash vscode#226562 @meganrogge
• 🏃 API to expose the shell's actual environment to extensions vscode#227467 @anthonykim1
• Ligatures in the terminal vscode#34103 @Tyriar

API

• 🏃 API proposals: query @jrieken @mjbvz
• 🏃 API finalization: query @jrieken @mjbvz

Extensions

• Policy support for extensions allow/block lists vscode#84756 @sandy081 @joaomoreno @isidorn
• Support additional built-in extensions in desktop vscode#232990 @sandy081
• Better local extension search experience vscode#232991 @sandy081
• Support configuration contribution points of resolver extensions vscode#224236 @sandy081

Extension Contribuions

• Support global PR queries vscode-pull-request-github#6448 @alexr00

Remote Extension Contributions

General

• 🏃 Add proxy support to the fetch defined by node when in a remote vscode#228697 @chrmarti

SSH Extension

• SSH connection issues @joshspicer
  • SSH agent forwarding reports vscode-remote-release#10274
  • Can't establish connection with ProxyCommand vscode-remote-release#10331
  • Control characters not being filtered from parsed terminal output vscode-remote-release#10417
• 🏃 Audit error handling for SSH connections vscode-remote-release#10249 @joshspicer

Engineering

• 🔴 Support building the monaco-editor AMD variant from new sources @hediet @alexdima

Electron

• 🏃 Align Electron fetch with Node.js fetch electron#43715, electron#43712 @deepak1556
• Deprecate macOS 10.15 vscode#232993 @deepak1556

Documentation

• 🏃 Address feedback from customer interviews on VS Code tutorial vscode-internalbacklog#5127 @ntrogh
• Document Tools API vscode-docs#7725 @isidorn @roblourens @ntrogh

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Deferred

• 💪 Finalize Related code vscode#126932 @connor4312
• 💪 Explore supporting reverse search in tree find to remove filter widget vscode#227009 @meganrogge
• VSCode freezing when adding folder to workspace while working on remote Linux machine vscode-remote-release#10168 @joshspicer
• 🏃 Change the global fetch available in local extension hosts to be the one from Electron vscode#228696 @chrmarti
• 🏃 Explore enabling COI on desktop, context for current block vscode#186614 @deepak1556

[iwangbowen]

Always looking forward to new features😍😍😍

[hickford]

@alexdima @hediet Any time to look at bug fix #216085 please?