Iteration Plan for May 2023

[kieferrm]

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

Update: We extended the May iteration by one week and now begin our endgame end-of-day of May 29. Since VS Code Insiders is used in several keynotes and sessions during the Build conference, we will freeze Insiders May 20 - 25 to give the presenters a breather.

Endgame

• May 29, 2023: Endgame begins
• June 2, 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
🏃	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

• Notebook output accessibility vscode#178630 @amunger
• Explore merge editor accessibility improvements vscode#180729 @meganrogge @hediet
• Add more accessibility.verbosity settings / hints vscode#180470 @meganrogge
• Present content first in References tree view vscode#180653 @meganrogge
• Settings Editor value descriptions are not read by screen readers vscode#180115 @rzhao271
• Accessibility issues, see query @meganrogge team

UX

• None.

Workbench

• Support Dev Containers and WSL in new Connect to... experience on Welcome Page vscode-remote-release#8251 @bhavyaus @aeschli @chrmarti
• Show 'Connect To Tunnel' on Welcome page in vscode.dev vscode#179687 @bhavyaus @aeschli @bhavyaus
• Support experimental contextual non-modal dialogs to educate users on web experiences vscode#179401 @bhavyaus @joyceerhl @daviddossett
• 🏃 Improve the keybinding recording widget vscode#178042 vscode#179015 vscode#179018 @ulugbekna
• 🏃 Explore support for multiple GitHub accounts vscode#127967 @TylerLeonhardt
• 🏃 UX to alert users of a slow remote connection vscode#178553 @bpasero
• Support roaming workspace state via StorageScope.WORKSPACE and StorageTarget.USER in IStorageService vscode#179898 @joyceerhl @bpasero
• Support deduplicating SSH and HTTP remotes when computing edit session identities vscode#180582 @joyceerhl
• Add read-only mode vscode#4873 @bpasero
• Exploration: Allow Default profile to be a fallback for settings, extensions and keyboard shortcuts vscode#156144 @sandy081
• 🏃 Adopt new extension host restart lifecycle vscode#180514 @bpasero @sandy081 @lszomoru @rebornix @mjbvz
• Drop support for windows 8 and 8.1 vscode#177676 @deepak1556

Code Editor

• 💪 Collapse unchanged regions in diff vscode#3562 @hediet
• Explore detecting moves in the diff editor vscode#181902 @hediet
• Monaco Editor Release 0.38.0 @hediet

Notebook Editor

• Support scrollable outputs for streaming text vscode#177721 @amunger @rebornix @mjbvz
• 🏃 Align closing behavior of the Interactive Window with Untitled Files vscode#172974 @amunger
• Allow scrapbook untitled working copies vscode#174485 @amunger @bpasero
• Support notebook.codeActionsOnSave vscode#179213 @Yoyokrazy
• Explore "Format Cell on Run" vscode-jupyter#7058 @Yoyokrazy
• Explore Sticky Scroll showing markdown headers in notebooks vscode#182444 @Yoyokrazy
• Polish global search options for open notebooks vscode#164926 @andreamah
• 🏃 Explore smart global search for notebooks in the workspace vscode#173726 @andreamah
• Static resources fail to load in Notebook renderer with 401 error vscode#175033 @mjbvz

Jupyter Notebooks

• Contributions to the vscode-jupyter extension vscode-jupyter#13471 team

WebAssembly Runtime Support

• Support tree house team on the new WASM-WASI-Core extension @dbaeumer
• Provide an extensible web-shell vscode-wasm#63@dbaeumer

Languages

Python

• Contributions to the python extension vscode-python#21196 @brettcannon team

JavaScript

• Bundle TS 5.1 vscode#182931 @mjbvz

Python WebAssembly Runtime Support

• None.

JavaScript/TypeScript

• Automatic type acquisition on the web vscode#172887 @mjbvz
  • 🏃 Merge in initial prototype from TS vscode#182801
• Project-wide IntelliSense on the web vscode#170920 @mjbvz

Language Server Protocol

• Investigate to extract a base protocol definition out of the LS protocol 1707 @dbaeumer

Source Control

• Allow customizing initial branch when initializing a Git repository vscode#179658 @lszomoru
• 🏃 Handle GitHub's Secret Scanning Push Protection vscode#169355 @lszomoru
• Support GitHub Repository Rules as branch protections vscode#182488 @lszomoru

Terminal

• 🏃 Make fixes to environment workspace collection and finalize proposed APIs vscode#182069 vscode#181755 @karrtikr
• Allow EnvironmentVariableCollection API to apply changes via shell integration vscode#179476 @Tyriar @karrtikr

Testing

• 💪 🏃 Support for ANSI colors in test output vscode#151964 @connor4312
• 💪 🏃 Start drafting a retired test item API vscode#134970 @connor4312

vscode.dev

• Opening vscode.dev should not require a browser reload to update web extensions vscode#174682 @sandy081

API

• 💪 🏃 Explore ShareableDataProvider API vscode#176316 @joyceerhl
• 🏃 Stabilize DocumentPasteEditProvider API to support pasting images vscode#30066 @mjbvz
• 🏃 Explore static status bar contributions vscode#167874 @jrieken
• 🏃 Finalize tree checkboxes API vscode#116141 @alexr00
• 🏃 Finalize port attributes API vscode#115616 @alexr00
• API proposals: query @jrieken @mjbvz
• API finalization: query @jrieken @mjbvz

Extensions

• Adopt using platform specifier in path for web extensions vscode#180525 @sandy081

Extension Contributions

• Improvements to the Remote extensions vscode-remote-release#8455 @eleanorjboyd @chrmarti @aeschli @joyceerhl @connor4312
• Nudge users towards sign-in vscode-pull-request-github#4756 @alexr00
• Allow checked-ed out PRs to show diffs only against PR head vscode-pull-request-github#4720 @alexr00

Engineering

• Roll out sandboxing to all users vscode#183818 @digitarald
• Adopt utility process in terminal/pty host vscode#175335 @Tyriar @bpasero
• 💪 Improving the developer experience for the CLI within the vscode repo vscode#171515 @aeschli @connor4312

Electron

• Orca can't be stopped in native dialogs vscode#121811 @deepak1556
• ✋ Right Click acting abnormal vscode#113175 @deepak1556
• Code - OSS doesn't launch when using Dev Container locally or in codespaces vscode#168655 @deepak1556

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Deferred

• Support that servers can read from remote file systems 1264 @rchiodo / @dbaeumer
• Explore prompting to enable Cloud Changes on save in web vscode#179014 @joyceerhl
• Explore alternative wording for "Continue On" explanations vscode#180106 @hbons
• ✋ Add elided text (editor core subset of vscode#170447) @hediet @alexdima
• ✋ ⬛ PGO for VSCode Desktop vscode#170931 @deepak1556
• Walkthrough images load slowly vscode#166890 @bhavyaus
• 🏃 Explore support for extensions to provide additional data to the issue reporter vscode#46726 @TylerLeonhardt
• 🏃 Make editor hovers resizable vscode#14165 @aiday-mar
• 🏃 Exploration: Re-think PR creation flow vscode-pull-request-github#4403 @alexr00 @hbons
• Exploration: Cross-profile settings and extensions vscode#176813 vscode#157492@sandy081
• ⬛ vscode#179000 Exploration: Changes editor @lszomoru
• 💪 Surface Dependabot alerts in workbench vscode#178991 @lszomoru

[MrJithil]

Is this roadmap open for contributors? If yes, I would like to participate in the "Collapse unchanged regions in diff" or "Explore static status bar contributions" or anything which need helps.

[Tyriar]

@MrJithil generally items on the iteration plan are being done by the core team in the month it's called out. If you're looking to contribute, check out this query: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22help+wanted%22