Jupyter: Iteration Plan for June 2022

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This plan captures our work in June. 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
🔁	repeating activity from iteration to iteration
🔴	missing issue reference
🔵	more investigation required to remove uncertainty
⚫	under discussion within the team

Jupyter Notebook High Priority

• 🔁 Maintain empty list of issues labeled as an important Golden Scenario or significant regression issue. @greazer team
• Ipywidget regression vscode-jupyter#9821 @donjaymanne

General

• Shell based kernel support vscode-jupyter#9682 @DonJayamanne
• Explore pasting images into markdown cells vscode-jupyter#5321, vscode#119961 @Yoyokrazy, @amunger, @mjbvz
• Explore support for Apple Silicon and other platforms vscode-jupyter#5206 @DonJayamanne
• Notebook Debugging Fixes found while enabling IW debugging for web. vscode-jupyter#10106 @DonJayamanne
• 🔴 💪 Variable Explorer low hanging fruit cleanup @sadasant

Web-enablement

• 🏃 Cleanup support for remote Jupyter server URI's for web and desktop - main issue vscode-jupyter#10435 (related vscode-jupyter#9574, vscode-jupyter#10363, vscode-jupyter#10312, vscode-jupyter#10191) @rchiodo
• 🏃 Dataframe viewer vscode-jupyter#9665, vscode-jupyter#10200
• 🏃 Plot viewer vscode-jupyter#10405 @sadasant
• Clean up support for ipywidgets in remote jupyter scenarios. @DonJayamanne vscode-jupyter#10434
• IW issues vscode-jupyter#10282, vscode-jupyter#10291 @amunger
• Error Links vscode-jupyter#10287 @rchiodo

Getting started

• With Core and Python, identify and address Low hanging fruit to improve existing workflows for the clean machine experience. board, Change 'Python 3' dummy install kernel into kernel selector commands #10513 @IanMatthewHuff
  • 🏃 Fix ipykernel prompt text vscode-jupyter#10295 @IanMatthewHuff

Engineering

• Localize using vscode-loc vscode-jupyter#9676 @sadasant
• 🏃 ✋ Migrate off of the vscode.proposed.notebookDeprecated vscode-jupyter#9629 @sadasant
• Improve overall structure of the code base vscode-jupyter#10152 @rebornix
  • Improve build time vscode-jupyter#10399 @rebornix
  • Reduce bundle size of the Jupyter extension vscode-jupyter#10307 @rebornix