Iteration Plan for March 2020

[kieferrm]

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

Endgame

• March 30th, 2020: Endgame begins
• April 3rd, 2020: Endgame done

The endgame details for this iteration are tracked in #93717.

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

UX

• Identify which icons we use for dynamic sidebar views (caused by moving views) Icons for dynamic views #92590 @misolori

Accessibility

• Improve the accessibility of the Differences view (F7) Using the file compare tool with screen readers needs some attention #88695 @isidorn
• Accessibility issues, see query @isidorn

Workbench

• Settings sync: support global state, snippets Support synchronising Snippets #86678 Support synchronising global state #86679 @sandy081
• Settings sync: improvements to the settings editor (visual indicators, filters) Sync improvements to the settings editor #92517 @roblourens
• Enable views to move between containers using drag'n drop and commands Enable View Location customizations Part 3 #92786 @sbatten @sandy081 @isidorn
• Allow contribution of views into the panel Add ability to add a Panel through an extension #41686 @sbatten
• 🏃 Provide in core implementation for notebooks Notebook Backlog #91987 @rebornix @jrieken @roblourens
• 🏃 Stabilize and document Custom Editor support Custom webview editor API #77131 @mjbvz @bpasero @jrieken
• 🏃 Provide account management UI Authentication providers - Account management UX #90385 @RMacfarlane @misolori
• Explore using GH Applications in GH authentication provider Explore using GitHub app in GitHub authentication provider #92675 @RMacfarlane
• 🏃 Supporting to customize the product icons Allow configuration of product icons #79130 @aeschli @misolori
• Global undo/redo: close and reopen a file preserves the undo stack Keep undo stack between file close and reopen #7169 @alexdima
• Global undo/redo: support to undo an operation for a file that is not in memory Support undoing textual edits in text buffers that were disposed #92272 @alexdima
• Investigate support for Local Workspace settings [Feature] Local Workspace settings #40233 @sandy081
• Make extension packs more visible in the Extensions view Add visual indicator for extension packs in extension search results #89962 @sandy081
• Support Welcome Views for Custom Views Allow Welcome content in custom views #92143 @alexr00
• Explorer: Show hidden files and their path when they are opened Explorer should show hidden files and their path if they are opened #92090 @isidorn
• 💪 Explorer: Add support for inclusion filters Exclude all files except for... #869 @isidorn
• Finish timeline support and enable it in Stable API support for Timeline view #84297 @eamodio
• Allow for view-local progress indication Add extension support for view-level progress indicators #92421 @eamodio

Editor

• Semantic coloring: finalize API Tokenization overhaul #77140 @alexdima @aeschli
• 🏃 Semantic coloring: implement API to color a range of a document Implement range semantic tokens provider #92273 @alexdima
• Semantic coloring: Add support for coloring library symbols [typescript][semantic] add library modifier #91090 @aeschli

Terminal

• 🏃 💪 Allow extensions to customize the environment of terminal processes Allow extensions to modify terminal environment variables #46696 @Tyriar
• Support for terminal link handlers Allow extensions to intercept and handle terminal links #91606 @Tyriar

Languages

• 🏃 Support richer labels in completion items Consider showing completion item detail if available for all list items #39441 @octref @jrieken
• Provide guidance for language servers for embedded languages Document guidelines to enable language features for embedded languages #47288 @octref @aeschli

LSP / LSIF

• Update the TypeScript LSIF indexer to TypeScript 3.8 Update LSIF indexer to use TypeScript 3.8.x lsif-node#94 @dbaeumer
• LSIF: Support reference delegates over projects Support cascading result sets across projects lsif-node#95 @dbaeumer
• 💪 Specify accept and content encoding in LSP Investigate into Message Pack and GZIP support vscode-languageserver-node#553 @dbaeumer

HTML/CSS

• Improve auto-rename tag implementation by not relying on multiple cursors Improve mirror cursor implementation with Synced Regions #88424 @octref

TypeScript/JavaScript

• ✋ Adopt TS recovery release 3.8.x Adopt TS 3.8.x  #92819 @mjbvz
• 🏃 Help TS team to assume ownership of semantic highlighting in TS tooling Help TS team to assume ownership of semantic highlighting in TS tooling #92789 @aeschli @mjbvz
• Collaborate with TS team on documentation of how to work with large TS projects Collaborate with TypeScript team on documenting large project best practices #92820 @mjbvz

Debug

• Allow debug extensions to provide configurations to display in Select and Start Debugging Allow debug extensions to provide configurations to display in Select and Start Debugging #88230 @weinand @isidorn @connor4312
• 🏃 Adapt "auto attach" feature in js-debug Adapt "auto attach" feature to js-debug #88599 @connor4312 @weinand
• Adopt terminal link handlers in js-debug Adopt terminal link handlers in js-debug vscode-js-debug#387 @connor4312
• Improve Call Stack presentation in the UI Debug: Improve Call Stack UI/UX #83986 @isidorn @misolori
• Debug Welcome View: work with Debug Adapter providers to contribute content Make run and debug welcome view extensible #85548 @isidorn
• 🏃 Explore using language service support for scope resolution Investigate into using language service support for scope resolution #84044 @weinand
• 💪 Explore using language service support for REPL evaluation Investigate into using language service support for REPL evaluation #87448 @weinand
• Explore progress UI for debugging Render progress for DAP progress events #92253 @isidorn @weinand
• Explore improving the debug experience when a single file is open without a launch config Explore improving the single file debug experience #92269 @weinand
• Implement new DAP protocol features for caret/selection positioning in completions support new "selection" feature of debug completion items #90974 @isidorn
• 🏃 Explore initial support for capturing and viewing performance profiles in js-debug Profiling support in js-debug vscode-js-debug#388 @connor4312

DAP

• Finalize cancellable progress events Proposal: Progress Events debug-adapter-protocol#92 @weinand

Tasks

• Improve task detection and selection Improve quick pick for tasks since task providers can make it too slow. #90087 @alexr00

API

• 🏃 March extension authors call Extension Authors Call for March 2020 #93604 @eamodio @fiveisprime
• API finalization: query
• API proposals: query

Extension Contributions

• Improvements to the Remote extensions (see plan here) team

ES Lint

• Embbed links to documentation in eslint diagnostic messages Adopt new link support in diagnostics vscode-eslint#911 @dbaeumer

Engineering

• 🏃 Explore node-free renderer processes Implement a node.js-free, sandboxed, context isolated renderer  #92164 @bpasero @deepak1556
• Rewrite quick open with quick pick widget QuickOpen: Rewrite using quick input widget #69955 @bpasero @chrmarti
• Run Smoke Tests as part of the nightly build (without failing the build if unsuccessful) Smoke test: run as part of nightly build and report status #92271 @bpasero @chrmarti
• Support to validate Test Plan items when generate endgame testing assignments https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-tools/issues/34 @sandy081 @JacksonKearl

Documentation

• None.

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Deferred Items

• Support for custom views with WebView contents Support WebViews in extension contributed custom views #83911 @mjbvz
• 🏃 Support to preview refactoring changes for other refactorings than Rename Support preview a WorkspaceEdit #77728 @jrieken @mjbvz
• Terminal link provider API Allow extensions to contribute links to the terminal (aka link providers) #91290 @Tyriar
• 🏃 Improve presentation of TS hovers Improve TypeScript hovers #92787 @octref @mjbvz

[sanket-bhalerao]

vscode 1.44 update seems to have broken the remote connection.
#92423

it seems to be caused by Remote-ssh extension.
downgraded it by a version and remote works fine.

[georgiai1]

Also, multi-row tabs would be great

[J3m5]

@gkkirilov I asked for it in early December
This feature was requested in March 2019.
IMHO, multi-line tabs and pinned tabs is a must have.

[Tyriar]

Released yesterday