Iteration Plan for July 2017

[kieferrm]

This plan captures our work in July. This is a 5 week iteration. We will ship early August. The main focus remains the same as last iteration's: We continue pushing on #396 "Multi-folder workspaces".

In July and August our team will operate with slightly reduced capacity. Being on the northern hemisphere means summer is upon us. At any given time, a few of us will be busy recharging with friends and families. If you mention somebody in an issue and you don't hear anything for a couple of days, just picture them hanging out on the beach 🏊‍♀️ 🏊‍♂️ 🏖️

Endgame

• July26nd: Code freeze for the Zurich endgame
• July 31st: Code freeze for the Redmond & Zurich endgame
• August 4th: Endgame done

The endgame details for this iteration are tracked in #31333

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
🔵	needs more discussion
🔴	missing issue reference

Workbench

• 🏃 Multi-folder workspaces Multi-root workspace implementation Roadmap #28344 (feature request Add support for opening multiple project folders in same window #396) @bpasero @Tyriar @ team
• Improve usability of text search in multi-folder workspaces Search viewlet multiroot UI #29977 Revisit search include/exclude and './' patterns #27226 @roblourens
• Allow users to manage custom sections in the explorer (reorder, show/hide) As a user, I should be able to control visibility and order of views #30120 @sandy081
• Polish Tasks v2.0 See query. @dbaeumer
• Provide color picker Out-of-the-box color picker #28587 @michelkaporin @joaomoreno

Editor

• Polish indentation of lines Improve indentation of lines #28658 @rebornix
• Support for choices in snippets @jrieken
• Improve handling of large files (memory usage, tune max size heuristic) Improve memory usage for large files #30180 @alexandrudima
• Make diffs prettier Make diffs prettier #30087 Tab count compare bug #23636 Diff: support "compaction heuristic" #11657 @alexandrudima

Accessibility

• 🏃 Improve support for assistive technologies in the integrated terminal Integrated terminal does not support screen readers #8339 @Tyriar

Debug

• Make debug launching multi-folder-workspace aware Debug: make launching multi root folder aware #29245 @isidorn @weinand
• Make Debug API multi-folder-workspace aware Make Debug API multi-folder-workspace aware  #31202 @weinand @isidorn
• Expand API for extensions (sessionStarted, sessionTerminated, sendCustomRequest, handleCustomEvent) Expand Debug API for extensions #30338 @weinand
• Show loaded scripts in a custom explorer section Show loaded scripts in a custom explorer section #28521 @weinand
• Support to contribute sections to the debug viewlet @sandy081

Install/update

• Help users to switch from the Windows 32bit install to the Windows 64-bit install @joaomoreno
• Improve proxy support, support proxies requiring authentication Help Wanted: Test new networking stack #22214 @joaomoreno

SCM

• 💪 🏃 🔴 Support for multiple repositories in a workspace @joaomoreno
• Revive creating a branch on checkout from status bar Can no longer create branch when running Git: Checkout #21439 @joaomoreno

Integrated Terminal

• Quick pick to navigate to a particular terminal Improve terminal navigation #29879 @Lixire

Languages

Language Server Protocol

• Maintenance, answer questions, clarify protocol as needed @dbaeumer

JavaScript/TypeScript

• Support multi-folder workspaces TypeScript Extension Multiroot Support #30414 @mjbvz
• Explore how to support external files supported by TS server plug-ins Support External Files Provided by TS Plugin #30411 @mjbvz
• Explore watch mode for TS build task Should TypeScript build task be a watch task? #29580 @mjbvz

ESLint

• Explore the eslint language server supporting multi-folder workspaces @dbaeumer

CSS

• Explore moving Emmet css completion provider into the css LS Consider moving emmet completion provider for css to css language service #29113 @ramya-rao-a

Emmet

• Support custom snippets in new Emmet Support custom snippets in new Emmet #29146
• Collaborate on Emmet fixes @ramya-rao-a Missing snippets for xsl emmetio/atom-plugin#30, Emmet abbreviation with (...)*n doesn't work emmetio/atom-plugin#23, @ syntax isn't working in Emmet 2.0 #30078, Remove group node to avoid extra newline and indent emmetio/abbreviation#3 and Support siblings after a group repeater emmetio/abbreviation#2, Support offset when numbering  emmetio/html-transform#1
• Increase test coverage for Emmet Add tests for emmet commands #8454 @ramya-rao-a
• Implement remaining 2 emmet actions: Update Image Size ("Emmet: Update image size" breaks formatting #27977) and Reflect CSS Value (Emmet: Implement Reflect CSS Value in emmet extension #31298)
• Prepare Emmet extension for translation Move all Emmet commands from core to extension and localize #29969 @ramya-rao-a

Extensions

API

• Experiment: remote file system Experiment: remote file system #30337 @jrieken

Engineering items

• Adopt TS 2.4.1 in vscode and team-supported extensions Adopt TS 2.4 For VS Code Build #28643 @mjbvz @ team
• Improve automated support for issue labeling and assignment Automate identifying, labeling, and closing stale issues #26223 @chrmarti
• Startup performance: use V8 snapshots for the VS Code loader Use V8 snapshots for the amd-loader #28492 @jrieken

Documentation

• 🏃 Recipe using Tasks with webpack, starting, problem matchers (see also Contribute problem matcher for the webpack ts-loader #29619) @aefernandes @Lixire

Exploration

• Explore the idea of a task panel @Lixire @aefernandes
• 🏃 Analysis of current test runner extensions (see also Test Runner Viewlet with an Extension API to plug into [Enhancement Request] #9505) @aefernandes
• Investigate into adding a secure credential storage API Provide a unified, secure, credential store #15414 @chrmarti

Deferred

• New release of the Monaco Editor Monaco Editor Release July 2017 monaco-editor#510 @rebornix
• 🏃 Adopt Electron 1.7.4 Adopt Electron 1.7.x #28582 @Tyriar
• 🏃 Use inspector protocol for extension debugging Attach to extension host vscode-node-debug2#4 @roblourens
• Support commands in the hover Allow command: links in hover decorations #29076 @jrieken
• Enable electron crash reporter for all processes Enable Electron Crash reporter for all processes after Electron update #21944 @ramya-rao-a
• Explore how best to help HTMLHint @ramya-rao-a
• Improve selection drawing Terminal selection should not change text color #29042 @Tyriar
• Improve link detection Improve terminal link detection July plan item #30211 @Tyriar

[glen-84]

Improve usability of text search in multi-folder workspaces

This might be #29977 (?)

[PCPrincess]

Multi-Folder - Color Picker - Tasks Panel => Yay!

[mrmlnc]

Explore how best to help HTMLHint

Where I can read solution for this issue? IMHO, HTMLHint is dead two years ago :)

[ramya-rao-a]

@mrmlnc That item got deferred. We didnt get time to get to that in July

[kieferrm]

Release published.