Iteration Plan for October 2024 [DRAFT]

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This plan captures our work in October. This is a 4-week iteration. We will ship in early November. With GH Universe right around the corner, we're working on several Copilot improvements. Thus, this month's core plan is more light than usual.

Endgame

• October 21, 2024: Endgame begins
• October 25, 2024: 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 @meganrogge team

Workbench

• None.

Code Editor

• 🏃 Investigation: Use tree-sitter for grammar colorization vscode#210475 @alexr00 @hediet
• 🏃 Make EditContext the default input strategy vscode#228093 @aiday-mar @hediet

Notebook Editor

• None.

Jupyter Notebooks

• 🏃 Update Jupyterlab npm package (supporting newer Jupyter server versions) vscode-jupyter#14422 @DonJayamanne

Languages

Python

• 🏃 Contributions to the Python extension, see plan @karthiknadig team

Authentication

• 🔴 Introduce method to add additional account when switching preferences @TylerLeonhardt

Testing

• None.

Debug

• None.

Debug Adapter Protocol

• None.

Terminal

• None.

Source Control

• Add SCM accessibility help dialog vscode#203577 @lszomoru @meganrogge

API

• 🏃 API proposals: query @jrieken @mjbvz
• 🏃 API finalization: query @jrieken @mjbvz

Extensions

• 🏃 Change the global fetch available in local extension hosts to be the one from Electron vscode#228696 @chrmarti

Remote Extension Contributions

• 🏃 Add proxy support to the fetch defined by node when in a remote vscode#228697 @chrmarti

SSH Extension

• None.

Engineering

• Support building the monaco-editor AMD variant from new sources @hediet @alexdima
• Support blocking startup on pending update vscode#227322 @bpasero

Electron

• 🏃 Crash when searching in extension preview editor vscode#177046 @rzhao271
• 🏃 Support for V8 sandbox in the extension host vscode#202385 @deepak1556

Documentation

• 🏃 Implement redesign of the Docs landing page [vscode-docs#7544](Revisit Docs landing page vscode-docs#7544 @ntrogh
• Address feedback from customer interviews on VS Code tutorial [vscode-internalbacklog#5127](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-internalbacklog/issues/5127 @ntrogh

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Deferred

• 🏃 Explore GPU rendering of the code editor vscode#221145 @Tyriar @hediet
• 🏃 Review REPL/IW Accessibility vscode#209140 @amunger
• 🏃 Support core actions (type/cut/paste/delete/undo/redo) for multi cursors (cmd+d) across cells vscode#141673 @Yoyokrazy
• 🏃 Clean up and review usage of notebook context menu (telemetry + proposal) vscode#219240 @Yoyokrazy
• Exploration on how to improve the diff algorithm vscode#227928 @DonJayamanne
• 💪 Finalize attributable test coverage API vscode#212196 @connor4312
• 💪 Finalize Related code vscode#126932 @connor4312
• 💪 Find in output vscode#225417 @meganrogge
• 💪 Explore supporting reverse search in tree find to remove filter widget vscode#227009 @meganrogge
• 🏃 API to expose the shell's actual environment to extensions vscode#227467 @anthonykim1
• 🏃 💪 Add support for terminal suggest in zsh/bash vscode#226562 @meganrogge
• VSCode freezing when adding folder to workspace while working on remote Linux machine vscode-remote-release#10168 @joshspicer
• 🏃 Catalog configurations for remote testing vscode-remote-release#10248 @joshspicer
• Audit error handling vscode-remote-release#10249 @joshspicer