Jupyter: Iteration Plan for March 2022

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This plan captures our work in March. 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

Jupyter Notebook High Priority

• 🏃 Maintain empty list of issues labeled as an important Golden Scenario issue. @greazer team

Jupyter Notebook Focus Areas

• 🏃 Core Behavior: Kernel enumeration, selection, startup, crashing, hanging issues.
  • 🏃 Aggregate issue: vscode-jupyter#7901 @DonJayamanne
  • 🏃 March Overall Query @DonJayamanne @greazer team
  • 🏃 Troubleshooting Wiki @dojayamanne
• Core Behavior: March milestone issues. Consists of key regressions, golden-scenario, and some polish. @greazer team
  • 🏃 vscode-jupyter query @greazer team
  • 🏃 vscode query @rebornix @roblourens
• 🏃 Core Behavior: Move "New Jupyter Notebook" into core code vscode-jupyter#9250 @amunger
• 🏃 Core Behavior: Coordinate simplified getting started workflow with Python extension vscode-jupyter#9936 @minsa110 @greazer
• Execution Everywhere: Investigate requirements and create plan for extension to be web-enabled. vscode-jupyter#8664 @minsa110 @greazer
  • 🏃 Lazy Kernels scenario definition and spike: vscode-jupyter#9076 @rchiodo @rebornix @misolori
  • Gracefully handle missing kernels. vscode-jupyter#9167. @DonJayamanne

Engineering

• 🏃 Prep and ship (potentially non-branded) preview of Jupyter "Power Tools" extension. Includes prototypes, experiments, previews of things like: Scratchpad for Jupyter Notebooks, Context help for Jupyter Notebooks, Kernel Management etc. vscode-jupyter#9251 @IanMatthewHuff
• Core Behavior: Move dependent package installation from Python Extension to Jupyter (ipykernel, nbconvert, jupyter, pandas, etc). vscode-jupyter#8457 @rchiodo @brettcannon
• 🏃 Core Behavior: Continue with review of jupyter extension architecture. Plan / Implement improvements vscode-jupyter#8933 @greazer team @rebornix @roblourens
• 🏃 Core Behavior: Provide automated performance and test validation test suite vscode-jupyter#7437 @amunger and @greazer team

Deferred

• None.