Jupyter: Iteration Plan for August 2021

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This plan captures our work in August. We follow the same iteration cycle as VS Code. Although we plan for a whole iteration, we may not only ship at the end of an iteration but throughout.

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

Notebooks

• 🏃 Support run by line vscode-jupyter#5607 @DavidKutu @roblourens
• 🏃 Support full debugging vscode#126431 @roblourens @DavidKutu
• 🏃 Review Survey prompt behavior (first prompt, wait between prompts) vscode-jupyter-internal#189 @IanMatthewHuff @claudiaregio
• Notebooks performance vscode-jupyter#6941, vscode-jupyter#5662, vscode#129370 @DonJayamanne @rebornix
• 💪 Explore handling and generation of SVG vscode-jupyter#6913 @IanMatthewHuff

Python Notebooks

• Diagnostics on cell deletion: vscode-jupyter#6608 @rchiodo @rebornix
• 💪 Ignore magic commands vscode-jupyter#6635 @rchiodo
• 🏃 💪 Explore dissonance between interpreters and kernels vscode-jupyter#6333 @brettcannon @rchiodo

Interactive Window

• 🏃 Polish interactive window: vscode-jupyter#7168 @joyceerhl

Documentation

• None.

Engineering

• 🏃 Simplify Code clean-up/simplification in the Jupyter extension @DonJayamanne @joyceerhl vscode-jupyter#6950, vscode-jupyter#6488
• 💪 Explore separating the default output renders into their own extension @greazer team vscode-jupyter#1909

Deferred

• Placeholder kernel to ensure run button appears immediately in a notebook vscode-jupyter#5861 @DonJayamanne
  • Add telemetry to get perf times for loading python & non-python kernels for the first time (without cache)