Remote: Iteration Plan for February 2023

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This plan captures our work in February 2023. 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
⬛	a large work item, larger than one iteration

Core

• Simplify content in the remote indicator vscode-internalbacklog#3440 @joyceerhl @daviddossett @chrmarti @aeschli @connor4312 @eleanorjboyd @jkeech @bamurtaugh

Dev Container Specification / CLI

• 🏃 Remove dependance on legacy features cli#287 @chrmarti
• Setting NODE_OPTIONS in remoteEnv breaks Codespace ⚠️ cli#351 @chrmarti

Dev Containers Extension

• 🏃 Remove dependance on built-in repository configs vscode-remote-release#7532 @chrmarti
• Indicate that bind mounts are slower (on Windows) in the Remote Explorer info tree view vscode-remote-release#8014 @chrmarti
• 💪 Attach to Kubernetes: Support container metadata vscode-remote-release#7880 @chrmarti

WSL

• Download server bits when updating and WSL was used recently vscode-remote-release#3839 @aeschli
• 🏃 Explore adopting the CLI for starting/managing the VS Code Server on WSL vscode-remote-release#7864 @aeschli @connor4312

Remote-SSH

• Stop Retry on Fatal Failures vscode-remote-release#7498 @eleanorjboyd @roblourens
• 💪 Attempt reconnection following device short sleep vscode-remote-release#5755 @eleanorjboyd @roblourens
• 🏃 Find workaround for new Windows bug vscode-remote-release#7272 @eleanorjboyd

Remote Repositories

• Improvements to the GitHub Repositories extension query @joyceerhl
• Explore Git LFS support vscode-remote-repositories-github#7 @joyceerhl
• Ship Remote Repositories Getting Started walkthrough vscode-remote-repositories-github#268 @bhavyaus @joyceerhl

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Deferred

• Improve management of Dev Containers vscode-remote-release#7720 @chrmarti
• Fix password prompt on folder open vscode-remote-release#6227 @eleanorjboyd
• CLI invocations should connect to the running CLI process vscode#171520 @connor4312 @aeschli
• Support "Allow Tunnel access" for the remote when connected to a SSH/WSL remote window vscode-remote-release#7865 @aeschli @connor4312
• Adopt CLI service mode in "Turn on Remote Tunnel Access" vscode#171520 @aeschli
• 🔴 Adopt the CLI RPC library in the test resolver extension @aeschli (requires open-sourcing the cli-rpc library)