Iteration Plan for October 2022

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

Endgame

• October 24, 2022: Endgame begins
• October 28, 2022: 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 @isidorn @meganrogge team
• Accessibility explorations vscode#162867 @meganrogge
• 🏃 Improve accessibility of Setting indicators vscode#159088 @rzhao271

UX

• 🏃 Provide guidance for usage of Quick Pick titles vscode#158895 @daviddossett
• Explore presenting deleted lines in the minimap vscode#161386 @daviddossett
• Explore UI improvements for the GitHub PR extension vscode-pull-request-github#4029 @daviddossett @alexr00

Workbench

• Setting Profiles
  • Show Synced Profiles in Settings Sync Data views vscode#162942 @sandy081
• Align trust and policy UX in settings editor with other indicators vscode#157564 @rzhao271 @sandy081
• 🏃 Adopt diffIdentityProvider in search for improved performance vscode#127621 @andreamah
• 💪 Explore ways to improve interacting with root files and folders in a crowded explorer view @lramos15 vscode#151630
• Introduce basic "home view" entry point for the Command Center vscode#158638 @TylerLeonhardt
• 🏃 Improve "Continue On..." (performance, usability, completeness) vscode#163077 @joyceerhl
• Improve View menu structure for editor actions vscode#158458 @sbatten @daviddossett

Web

• Continue translations in the web vscode#82595 @TylerLeonhardt

Code Editor

• Remove too many folding regions notification vscode#163428 @aeschli
• Make it more clear that long lines are truncated vscode#162320 @alexdima

Merge Editor

• Add "Mark as Handled: action in the Result view vscode#162656 @hediet
• Render diff information in Base vscode#160292 @hediet
• Accept both sides under each other when character-level merging is not possible vscode#157632 @hediet
• Continue Merge editor customer development vscode#162815 @isidorn @stevencl

Notebook Editor

• 🔴 Ensure markdown renderers are always loaded successfully @mjbvz @rebornix
• 🏃 Help users diagnose notebook rendering perf issues vscode#154873 @mjbvz
• 💪 Enable scrollable notebook outputs vscode-jupyter#7096 @amunger
• 💪 🏃 Explore improving files search results for notebooks vscode#95275 @andreamah

Jupyter Notebooks

• Contributions to the vscode-jupyter extension vscode-jupyter#11581 team

Languages

Python

• Contributions to the python extension vscode-python#19972 @brettcannon team

JavaScript/TypeScript

Markdown

• 💪 Stabilize DocumentPasteEditProvider API to support pasting images vscode#30066 @mjbvz
• Finalize support for markdown link refactoring updates vscode#148146 @mjbvz

Debug

• 🏃 Implement StartDebugging DAP request vscode#160169 @roblourens

Terminal

• 🏃 Allow extensions to contribute terminal quick fixes vscode#145234 @meganrogge
• 🏃 Adopt editor quick fix widget for terminal quick fixes vscode#162067 @meganrogge
• Improve UX of port quick fix vscode#162217 @meganrogge

Source Control

• 🏃 Explore implementing certain git status operations without spawning git vscode#64234 @lszomoru
• 🏃 Responsive UI updates handling of slow status updates in large mono repos vscode#162417 @lszomoru
• Git - Adopt extension log API vscode#162185 @lszomoru

Extensions

• Verify signed extension vscode#162284 @sandy081

API

• API finalization: query @jrieken @mjbvz
• API proposals: query @jrieken @mjbvz
• 🏃 Continue finalization of remaining proposed notebook API vscode#149861 @mjbvz @rebornix @roblourens
• 🏃 Work with LiveShare on content provider migration vscode#147248 @mjbvz
• 🏃 Improve Extensions logging vscode#159892 @sandy081

Extension Contributions

• Improvements to the Remote extensions vscode-remote-release#7315 @eleanorjboyd @chrmarti @aeschli
• Improvements to the GitHub Repositories extension query @joyceerhl
• Improvements to the Live Preview extension query @andreamah @roblourens
• ✋ Fix preview of forwarded ports in Codespaces for Simple Browser and Live Preview vscode-livepreview#111 @andreamah @mjbvz
• GHPRI: Adopt localization pipeline vscode-pull-request-github#3913 @alexr00

Install / Update

• Enable Windows 11 explorer context menu feature with Insiders vscode#127365 @deepak1556

Engineering

• Enrich extension host unresponsive telemetry events to include slow stacks vscode#163819 @jrieken
• Investigate slow stacks reported from the renderer process [vscode#163819](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issu es/163819) @jrieken
• 🏃 Explore lazy code loading @jrieken @Tyriar vscode#164068
• 🏃 Explore reducing typing latency vscode#161622 @Tyriar

Electron

• Contribute the utility process and APIs to Electron vscode#154007 @deepak1556
• 💪 Enable AutoDisableAccessibility Chromium runtime flag vscode#162331 @deepak1556
• WCO black border under buttons vscode#150778 @rzhao271
• 🏃 Adopt display language as locale for electron to properly display WCO vscode#159958 @rzhao271

Documentation

• 🏃 Update Azure Content, ToC vscode-docs#5614 @gregvanl @isidorn
• Update Dev Container documentation vscode-docs#5696 @gregvanl @bamurtaugh

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Deferred

• Exploration: Sharing profiles vscode#159891 @sandy081 @isidorn
• Improve how title bar visibility interacts with its interactive components vscode#161948 @sbatten @jrieken
• Explore automatic type acquisition on web typescript#45314 @mjbvz
• Add task dropdown menu to terminals, hidden by default vscode#162469 @meganrogge
• SCM: Notification API vscode#161200 @lszomoru
• Git: Improve unsafe repository warning vscode#157159 @lszomoru
• GHPRI: Show PR review status vscode-pull-request-github#681 @alexr00
• 🔴 Explore splitting main bundle in multiple files @jrieken
• Update source control documentation to include the merge editor vscode-docs#5618 @hediet @gregvanl
• Add an Git introductory page vscode-docs#5677 @digitarald
• Explore how to better express view display styles (tree versus list) vscode#162595 @daviddossett
• Explore migrating from AMD to ESM vscode#160416 @jrieken
• Support actions on quick pick categories vscode#149057 @TylerLeonhardt @daviddossett
• Explore possibility of unifying explorer selection in focus behind a setting @lramos15
• Align editor find widget with the notebook find widget vscode#144851 @rebornix
• Explore accepting parts of an inline completion proposal vscode#155473 @hediet
• Sandboxing: Explore adopting utility process for shared process vscode#154050 @bpasero @deepak1556
• 🏃 White flashing when opening a new window vscode#132339 @rzhao271 @deepak1556
• Review and update Configure C++ Debugging topic vscode-docs#5518 @gregvanl