Iteration Plan for May 2024

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This plan captures our work in May. This is a 5-week iteration. We will ship in early June.

Endgame

• May 27, 2024: Endgame begins
• May 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
• 💪 Investigate VS Code speech commands vscode#209906 @meganrogge @bpasero
• SCM accessibility improvements vscode#203577 @lszomoru @meganrogge

Workbench

• Investigate text-to-speech in panel/inline chat interfaces vscode#196261 @bpasero
• Tabs multi select vscode#119327 @benibenj
• Editor action: option to always show vscode#209962 @benibenj
• Tree: Support contributable find providers vscode#212077 @benibenj
• Add url handling for settings vscode#212079 @alexr00
• 🏃 Profile polish Issues @sandy081
• 💪 Deep folder settings vscode#32693 @sandy081

Code Editor

• 🏃 Improve auto indentation in the editor vscode#206891 @aiday-mar @hediet
  • Skip lines that are part of a multi-line string (or comment) vscode#209859 @aiday-mar @hediet
  • Strip comments from code before evaluating regexes vscode#209861 @aiday-mar @hediet
  • Explore removing brackets from strings before evaluating regexes vscode#209862 @aiday-mar @hediet
• Make expandable hover content accessible for SR users vscode#207592 @aiday-mar @hediet
• 🏃 Investigation: Use tree-sitter for grammar colorization vscode#210475 @alexr00
• Release the Monaco Editor @hediet

Notebook Editor

• 🏃 Migrate Interactive window editor to notebook only vscode#154983 @amunger
• 🏃 Experiment saving notebooks on extension host by default vscode#211730 @amunger
• Introduce notebook.format code actions to support notebook document formatting with Ruff and Black vscode#212381 @Yoyokrazy @rebornix
• 🏃 Support Find in editor selection, selected cells, or sections in Notebook Find Widget vscode#209839 @Yoyokrazy
• 🏃 Introduce NotebookDocumentChangeEvent#reason API for notebook document event filtering vscode#212063 @DonJayamanne
• Explore better handling of merge conflicts for .ipynb files vscode#160941 @DonJayamanne

Search

• Explore finalizing FileSearchProvider API vscode#73524 @andreamah
• Explore finalizing TextSearchProvider API vscode#59921 @andreamah

WebAssembly Support

• Document how to use VS Code's component model tooling to use WASM services inside a VS Code extensions vscode-wasm#157 @dbaeumer

Issue Reporter

• 🏃 Support the issue reporter in the web vscode#203247 @justschen
• 🏃 Improve behaviour when multiple calls to the issue reporter are made vscode#208718 @justschen

Languages

Language Server Protocol

• Improve LSP implementation in regards to event handling @dbaeumer
• Add support for pull diagnostics in notebooks @dbaeumer
• 🏃 Release new version of LSP @dbaeumer

Python

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

TypeScript

• Automatic type acquisition on the web vscode#172887 @mjbvz
• 🏃 Support bringing along imports with copy paste typescript#50187 @mjbvz
• 🏃 Reduce how often move code actions trigger the light bulb typescript#58387 @justschen

Testing

• Track which test generates which coverage information vscode#126932 @connor4312
• Finalize the preserveFocus API vscode#209491 @connor4312

Debug

• Expose current thread/stack frame id vscode#63943 @connor4312

API

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

Engineering

• 🏃 Create startup memory efficiency performance test vscode#211837 @bpasero
• Decouple NLS from loader vscode#212542 @bpasero

Extensions

• 🏃 Investigate high extension install error rate vscode#190233 @sandy081
• Explore updating extension template to use esbuild vscode-generator-code#461 @aeschli
• Allow extension to contribute custom labels vscode#211632 @benibenj

Extension Contributions

• 🏃 Improvements to the Remote extensions, see plan @roblourens @chrmarti @connor4312 @joyceerhl
• 🏃 Adapt the new ESLint flat config support vscode-eslint#1644 @dbaeumer

Electron

• 🏃 Electron 29 vscode#210467 @deepak1556
• 🏃 V8: Support usage of external array buffers for embedders in sandbox mode chromium#14585 @deepak1556

Documentation

• 🏃 Add Testing user guide vscode-docs#7208 @ntrogh

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Deferred

• Expose shell integration command knowledge to extensions vscode#145234 @Tyriar
• Explore Terminal Buffer access for extensions vscode#207504 @Tyriar