Iteration Plan for September 2023

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

Endgame

• September 25, 2023: Endgame begins
• September 29, 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

• Accessibility issues, see query @meganrogge team
• Improve Comments accessibility vscode#192377 @alexr00
• Improve reviewing accessibility vscode-pull-request-github#5225 @alexr00

UX

• 🏃 Update Figma toolkit to use color variables vscode-figma-toolkit#10 @daviddossett

Workbench

• 🏃 Add CA support to http2 requests in the extension host vscode#185098 @chrmarti
• Explore and scope support for floating windows via window.open vscode#10121 @bpasero @Tyriar
• 💪 Polish unfocused dimming feature vscode#191775 @Tyriar
• 💪 Support keyboard navigation between groups in quick picks vscode#149046 @TylerLeonhardt
• 🏃 Investigate UI state syncing issues vscode#192267 @sandy081 @sbatten
• Allow for smaller or larger tab height size vscode#42253 @benibenj @bpasero
• Pinned tabs: show them in a secondary tab row above others vscode#98160 @benibenj @bpasero
• 💪 Make comment editor expandable vscode#110403 @alexr00
• Support icons for Profiles vscode#192386 @sandy081
• 🏃 Explore Profiles Management UX vscode#192387 @hbons @sandy081

Code Editor

• Explore using ArrayBuffer as backend for editor text contents vscode#167719 @rebornix
• Support triggering quick fixes with CtrlCmd+. with the cursor positioned anywhere vscode#191854 @justschen

Notebook Editor

• Support trim trailing whitespace/empty lines in notebook cells vscode#181905 @Yoyokrazy
• 🏃 Support word highlight across notebook cell vscode#184259 @Yoyokrazy
• Explore support code cell symbols in Go to Symbols (sort using :) vscode-jupyter#13930 @amunger
• Explore scroll position improvement on execution vscode#169038 @amunger

Jupyter Notebooks

• Finalize API JupyterServerProvider vscode-jupyter#13894 and onboard AML @DonJayamanne
• Explore extension recommendation for pandas dataframes viewers vscode-jupyter#14315 @rebornix
• 🏃 Explore supporting Run Dependent Cells vscode-jupyter#14316 @rebornix
• Support latest jupyter notebook 7.x API vscode-jupyter#14215 @DonJayamanne
• Moving Jupyter Hub support to a separate extension and support latest Jupyter Hub vscode-jupyter#13973 @DonJayamanne
• 💪 Fix custom ZMQ build for Linux ARM32/ARM64 vscode-jupyter#14070 @DonJayamanne

WebAssembly Support

• Understand the implications of the proposed Resource model for VS Code's host implementation wasm#117 @dbaeumer

Languages

• Adopt a new Perl6/Raku grammar vscode#168319 @alexr00

Python

• Contributions to the python extension, see plan @brettcannon team

Language Server Protocol

• Ship new version of LSP lsp#1314 @dbaeumer

Markdown

• 🏃 Add smart pasting of markdown URLs vscode#186289 @mjbvz
• 🏃 Add drop/paste for css vscode#189875 @mjbvz

Source Control

• 🏃 Ahead/behind view in SCM view container vscode#192290 @lszomoru

Tasks

• Tasks issues, see query @meganrogge

Testing

• 🏃 Explore improvements to Mocha testing vscode#189680 @connor4312

Debug

• Support debugging WASM files in JavaScript vscode-js-debug#1789 @connor4312
• Support toString in for call-stacks vscode-js-debug#1770 @connor4312

API

• 🏃 Explore ShareableDataProvider API vscode#176316 @joyceerhl
• 🏃 API proposals: query @jrieken @mjbvz
• 🏃 API finalization: query @jrieken @mjbvz

Extensions

• 🏃 Explore support for extensions to provide additional data to the issue reporter vscode#46726 @justschen @TylerLeonhardt

Extension Contributions

• Improvements to the Remote extensions, see plan @roblourens @chrmarti @connor4312 @joyceerhl
• Automatically collapse comments once they are resolved vscode-pull-request-github#5031 @alexr00

Documentation

• 🏃 Scaffold "Custom Layout" document vscode-docs#6393 @gregvanl

Engineering

• ✋ Use Terrapin instead of crates.io. Artifacts support for Cargo is now available in DevOps #4353 @connor4312
• Adopt StorageScope.WORKSPACE and StorageTarget.USER in workbench vscode#183449 @joyceerhl team
• Move chat view and container registration to a workbench contribution vscode#185179 @sbatten @roblourens
• 🏃 Track memory leaks in unit tests vscode#190503 team

Electron

• 🏃 Explore wiring Electron.net API into the utility process vscode#192899 @devm33 @deepak1556
• Deprecate macOS 10.13, 10.14 vscode#192897 @deepak1556

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Deferred

• Update Figma templates to use Dark/Light Modern themes vscode-figma-toolkit#9 @daviddossett
• Maximize current file/tab/editor vscode#16927 @benibenj @bpasero
• Explore multiple diff editors in a single scrolling editor for PR diff reviewing vscode#179000 @hediet @lszomoru
• Allow having shorter text when pinning in language status API vscode#192880 @jrieken
• Adopt canonical URI Provider API for workspace trust vscode#180582 @sbatten
• Explore publishing the CLI to winget vscode#192885 @connor4312
• Reduce merge conflicts by diffing both inputs against each-other vscode#157496 @hediet
• Automatic type acquisition on the web vscode#172887 @mjbvz
• 🏃 Explore support for multiple GitHub accounts vscode#127967 @TylerLeonhardt
• 🏃 Finalize port attributes API vscode#115616 @alexr00
• Review and update Command Line Interface (CLI) topic vscode-docs#6435 @gregvanl
• Review and update Configure C++ Debugging topic vscode-docs#5518 @gregvanl