Iteration Plan for January 2025

[kieferrm]

This plan captures our work in January 2025. This is a 4-week iteration. We will ship in early February.

Since mid-December, GitHub Copilot has been available for free for everyone. This allows us to treat AI support as an out-of-the-box experience in VS Code. Consequently, going forward, we'll cover our client-side work for Copilot in this plan, similarly to how we have been tracking our work on our Remote Extensions over the last years.

Endgame

• Jan 27, 2024: Endgame begins
• Jan 31, 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

• Layout Controls: move them to respective corners vscode#232798 @bpasero
• 🔴 Support video formats in walkthroughs @bhavyaus
• 🏃 Support moveable quick open widget vscode#17268 @TylerLeonhardt

Code Editor

• 🏃 Investigation: Use tree-sitter for grammar colorization vscode#210475 @alexr00 @hediet
• 🏃 Explore GPU rendering of the code editor vscode#221145 @Tyriar @hediet
• Add support for variable line heights vscode#147067 @aiday-mar
• Add support for multiple fonts in the editor vscode#237346 @aiday-mar
• 💪 Explore computing the indentation level using tree-sitter's AST vscode#208985 @aiday-mar

Notebook Editor

• Show Inline values for variables in cell editor vscode#237263 @Yoyokrazy
• Improve markdown rendering in notebook (e.g., support custom fonts) vscode#143907 @Yoyokrazy

Jupyter Notebooks

• Improve Context key for execution/debug/run-by-line actions vscode-jupyter#16189 @Yoyokrazy
• 💪 Explore kernel persistence for Remote environments vscode-jupyter#16224 @DonJayamanne

Settings

• Fix fuzzy search in settings search vscode#226039 @rzhao271

Languages

Python

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

TypeScript

• None.

Authentication

• 🏃 Adopt Broker flow in Microsoft Auth provider via MSAL-node vscode#229431 @TylerLeonhardt

Source Control

• Add SCM accessibility help dialog vscode#203577 @lszomoru @meganrogge
• 💪 Support for ref context actions vscode#232992 @lszomoru

Testing

• None.

Terminal

• 🏃 Improve upon terminal completions query @meganrogge
• 🏃 Promote terminal ligatures from experimental query @Tyriar
• 🏃 Terminal Environment Variable API vscode#227467 @anthonykim1
• Terminal Shell Type API vscode#230165 @anthonykim1

API

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

Extensions

• None.

Extension Contributions

• 🏃 Support global PR queries vscode-pull-request-github#6448 @alexr00

Remote Extension Contributions

General

• None.

SSH Extension

• 💪 Better proxy support for remote (install, download extensions, etc) vscode-remote-release#5927, vscode-remote-release#10491 @joshspicer
• 💪 SSH Config parsing improvements @joshspicer
  • Upgrade ssh-config dependency vscode-remote-release#10132, vscode-remote-release#10013
  • Wildcard support for remote SSH platform vscode-remote-release#2997
• 💪 Resolve unique connection issues vscode-remote-release#10412, vscode-remote-release#6319, vscode-remote-release#6600 @joshspicer

GitHub Copilot

• 🔴 Improve out-of-the-box experience @bpasero
• 🔴 Improve Copilot Edits and explore self-guided multi-step editing in Copilot Edits @kieferrm team
• 🔴 Provide support for next edit suggestions @alexdima team
• 🔴 Make language-specific context available to Copilot inline completions @dbaeumer
• 🔴 Provide support for prompt snippets @legomushroom

Engineering

• Support building the monaco-editor AMD variant from new sources vscode#234114 @hediet @alexdima

Electron

• 🏃 Align Electron fetch with Node.js fetch electron#43715, electron#43712 @deepak1556

Documentation

• 🏃 Document extension runtime security vscode-docs#7874 @ntrogh @isidorn

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Deferred

• 💪 Finalize Related code vscode#126932 @connor4312
• 💪 Explore supporting reverse search in tree find to remove filter widget vscode#227009 @meganrogge
• VSCode freezing when adding folder to workspace while working on remote Linux machine vscode-remote-release#10168 @joshspicer
• 🏃 Explore enabling COI on desktop, context for current block vscode#186614 @deepak1556

[iwangbowen]

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