Python: Iteration Plan for January 2022

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This plan captures our work in January. 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.

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

Getting started

• 🏃‍♀️ Lock down initial flow for project creation vscode-python#17194 @luabud @minsa110 @brettcannon
• 🏃‍ Investigate breaking the Jupyter soft dependency; vscode-python#18073 @luabud @minsa110
• 🏃‍♀️ Python Data Science walkthrough version 2 vscode-python#18139 @luabud @minsa110

Environments

• Remove python.pythonPath experiment vscode-python#17977 @karrtikr
• 🏃‍♀️ Implement the proposed public API for the extension and use it internally vscode-python#17905 @karthiknadig
• Prototype using the new language status API; vscode-python#18040 @karrtikr
• Utilize quick pick separators vscode-python#18165 @karrtikr

Editing

None

Terminal

• 🏃‍♀️ Infer environment variables for an activated conda environment vscode-python#17332 @paulacamargo25
• Explore options for activated terminals and terminal profiles vscode-python#11039 @luabud

Debugging

• Investigate automatic debug configuration based on the open workspace; issue; @paulacamargo25

Formatting

None

Linting

• Put flake8 behind LSP vscode-python#17235 @karthiknadig

Testing

• Rewrite testing adapter for pytest vscode-python#17242 @kimadeline
• 🏃‍♀️ Rewrite testing adapter for unittest vscode-python#17242 @kimadeline

(github|vscode).dev

None

Engineering

• 🏃‍♀️ Use conda run for running tools vscode-python#17973 @paulacamargo25
• 🏃‍♀️ Explore localization (desktop and web); issue; @paulacamargo25 @TylerLeonhardt
• 🏃‍♀️ venv test failing due to VS Code upstream and setting inspection vscode-python#17666 (blocked on vscode#135121) @karrtikr @karthiknadig
• ✋ Switch to an insiders/nightly extension in the Marketplace (blocked on work to standardize this sort of thing) vscode-python#17196 @karrtikr
• Move from enableProposedApi to enabledApiProposals in package.json; vscode-python#18184 @karrtikr

Python community

• Get CI set up for building CPython under WASM; repo @brettcannon
• Get PEP 665 accepted (although it was ultimately rejected); PEP @brettcannon
• 🏃‍♀️ Start a conversation with release managers about building zip files containing an interpreter @brettcannon

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Deferred items

• ✋ 🔵 Work w/ Pylance on automatic indentation vscode-python#481 @brettcannon (blocked on Pylance investigating)
• ✋ Create platform-specific VSIXs (some discussion needed); vscode-python#17439 @karrtikr