May Iteration Plan

[kieferrm]

This plan captures the focus of our work during the May iteration. It's a 5 week iteration. We will ship early June.

Endgame

• May, 29th: Code freeze for the endgame
• June 2nd: Endgame done

The endgame details for this iteration are tracked in #27415.

Plan Items

Below is a summary of the top level plan items.

Legend for annotations:

Mark	Description
🏃	work in progress
✋	blocked task
💪	stretch goal for this iteration
🔵	more details required
🔴	missing issue reference

Plan Items

Workbench

• Design for multi root workspaces, multi folder, validate with user testing Add support for opening multiple project folders in same window #396 @bpasero @Tyriar
• Investigate restructuring Welcome page into Learn and Configure sections Separate 'configuration' from 'learning' quick links #22097 @chrmarti
• Improve presentation of documentation in intellisense Automatically expand full docstring when autocompleting #18582 Expand docs on the side in the suggest widget #25812 @ramya-rao-a
• Emmet 2.0 support Emmet extension for expansion and all other actions using the new apis #21943 @ramya-rao-a
• Improve theming support for Welcome page Workbench colors for Welcome/Playground #25798 @chrmarti
• Remember scroll position when switching between webviews Markdown Preview does not preserve scroll position #22995 @mjbvz
• Add command to install additional SCM provider extensions Add command to install an SCM provider to the Switch SCM Provider menu #25696 @isidorn @waderyan
• React to feedback for workbench theming new colors@bpasero @aeschli

Editor

• Find widget improvements Feature request: Resize grip on find/replace popup #2657 feature issue: saving Find/Replace options #6158 Find Widget UI enhancement #26498 @rebornix
• Support to configure mouse/keyboard gesture for adding multiple cursors @alexandrudima
• Improve the snippet infrastructure (enable emmet 2.0, support multi cursor) @jrieken

Monaco Editor

• 🏃 Improve editor accessibility focusing on Edge+Narrator Accessibility: NVDA reading wrong or duplicate content in editor #26730 @alexandrudima

Install/Update

• 64 bits windows install 64bit version for Windows? #507 @joaomoreno
  update for April we will only make a zip install available, full install update is planned for June
• Investigate improving update experience. (See also, Too many update prompts for users - and suggested alternatives. #24823 too many update prompts for users) 26199 @joaomoreno, @isidorn

Integrated Terminal

• 🏃 💪 Support selecting and copy more than just the visible text in a terminal Add virtual selection to integrated terminal #9958 @Tyriar

Tasks

• Finalize and publish task provider API Proposed Task Api Feedback #23435 @dbaeumer
• Support to associate problem matchers with contributed tasks Cannot associate a problem matcher with an auto detected tasks #25518 @dbaeumer
• Contribute tasks for scripts in the package.json (in a bundled npm extension) Bundle a task provider for package.json scripts #27447 @egamma

Languages

JavaScript/TypeScript

• Finish support for TS server plugins Support "external files" provided from TypeScript LS plugins #25740 @mjbvz
• Improve TS editing experience TypeScript May 2017 UX Issue Prioritization #25842 @mjbvz
• Contribute tasks for building and watching TypeScript Contribute tasks for building TypeScript #26079 @mjbvz
• Initial preparations for adopting TS 2.4 in June Initial preparations for adopting TS 2.4 in June #26080 @mjbvz

Markdown

• Support quick outline for markdown Indent markdown headings in Go to Symbols menu #25574 @mjbvz

Debug

• Allow remoteRoot also for node "Launch" action Allow remoteRoot also for node "Launch" action (for custom launchers) #11681 @weinand
• Explore - SSH based remote debugging (e.g. for Azure App Services, Containers) Explore how to support SSH based remote debugging #26205 @weinand
• Honor the optional endLine and endColumn attributes of StackFrame and Breakpoint Honour the optional endLine and endColumn attributes of StackFrame and Breakpoint #8851 @isidorn
• Improve stepping performance Allowing to step over before loading a call stack and variables #25605 @isidorn
• Support to copy the entire text of the debug console Multi page selection in debug console #2163 @isidorn
• Investigate improving the debug toolbar placement Debug actions pane often blocks file names #2513 @isidorn

Extensions API

• Support to contribute a tree section to the explorer Implement contributable tree views #26948 @sandy081
• Allow extensions to use theme colors Allow extensions to use theme colors #26974 @aeschli

Extension Contributions

• 🏃 Round up PHP language server PR Adopt Microsoft/tolerant-php-parser felixfbecker/php-language-server#357 @roblourens
• Preview of a VS Code extension that bundles the tslint typeScript server plugin Gaps between tslint-language-service and vscode-tslint angelozerr/tslint-language-service#32 @egamma
• VIM improvements Vim refactor and enhancement VSCodeVim/Vim#1706 @rebornix

Engineering Items

• 🏃 Hire new team member Hire a developer for the VS Code team in Redmond #27092 @kieferrm
• Open accessibility Issues all
• Automate the Smoke test using Spectron Spectron Smoketest #25291 @michelkaporin

Startup performance

• Improve startup performance using cached data, V8 snapshots Use node cached data for node_modules #25229 @jrieken

Issue management

• Automate identifying, labeling, and closing stale issues Automate identifying, labeling, and closing stale issues #26223 @chrmarti
• Make it easy to verify that an issue is from an extension by supporting to disable all extensions in the extensions viewlet @sandy081

Build

• Can we use the TypeScript --noEmitHelper option to reduce the compiled output size and replace our custom solution Make use of tslib #25612 @jrieken
• Review Multi-arch build configurations (armhf/arm64) for Travis CI Multi-arch build configurations (armhf/arm64) for Travis CI #24943 @joaomoreno

Documentation

Provide recipes for using VS Code with particular technologies

• Debugging Docker with Source maps See repository. @weinand
• Developing the MERN Starter in VS Code See repository. @weinand

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Deferred

• Make v2 the default and provide parity with 1.0 @dbaeumer

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• Typescript - Investigate improving the development support for TS server plugins Investigate improving the development support for TS server plugins  #26235 @mjbvz
• Improve extension API to better support extensions that provided synching of the vs code setup vscode.extensions Doesn't Update On Installing / Removing / Disabling Extensions without restarting #14444 @sandy081
• Improve checkJS experience with React Improve checkJS experience with React #26081 @mjbvz

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• Editor - Publish a new version of the monaco editor @alexandrudima
• Editor - Investigate aligning column selection with other editors @alexandrudima
• Install - 64 bits windows install 64bit version for Windows? #507 @joaomoreno
• Debug - "Live Edit" [Node.js] Edit and continue [Node.js]  #8127 Support Live Reloading Scenarios #6930 @weinand
• Go Iteration Plan for May - June 2017 vscode-go#959 @ramya-rao-a
• Enable electron crash reporter for all processes Enable Electron Crash reporter for all processes after Electron update #21944 @ramya-rao-a
• Continue investigation into markdown extensions Markdown Preview Extensions Exploration #22916 @mjbvz

[egamma]

Closing - 1.13. has been shipped