January Iteration Plan

[egamma]

This plan captures what we work on during second halve of December and January. We will ship early February.

The endgame for this iteration is tracked in #19031

Plan Items

Below is a summary of the top level plan items.

Legend for annotations:

Mark	Description
🏃	work in progress
✋	blocked task
💪	stretch goal for this iteration
🔵	more details required
🔴	missing issue reference

Themes

• performance
• discoverability
• UI scalability
• Expand API

Workbench

• Improve discoverability of panels and explore the use of tabs for switching among panels Improve discoverability of panels and explore the use of tabs for switching among panels #18078 @bpasero
• File type/language specific settings Support file-type-specific settings #1587 @sandy081
• Initial investigation into multi root workspaces @waderyan
• Investigate int Welcome experience Investigate int Welcome experience #18091 @chrmarti
• Support to run tasks in the integrated terminal Support moving the tasks framework to use the integrated terminal #15584, Execute tasks in terminal instead of output panel #18312 @dbaeumer @Tyriar
• Polish settings experience (searching, sorting, actions, layout, switching between user/workspace settings) Improve User/Workspace settings experience #18094 @sandy081 @bgashler1
• Terminal: Improve Windows support Improve Windows support in integrated terminal #13625 @Tyriar
• Terminal: Improve performance Improve xterm.js performance #17875 @Tyriar
• Explore Hot Exit strategies when switching between folders and how to configure them Hot exit on switching folders #15467 @Tyriar
• Improve keyboard navigability for Search results Suboptimal hotkey workflow for "find in files" #17324 @roblourens

Editor

• Adopt new TextMate Scope representation New theme matching and new tokens format #18317 @alexandrudima
• Tooling for grammar authors (see also the scope extension) Add tooling for grammar and theme authors #18068 @alexandrudima
• Ship updated monaco editor (depends on TextMate Scope adoption) @alexandrudima
• Investigate in mini map support @alexandrudima
• Auto indent support improve indentation rules #17868
  • Improve auto indent on enter for languages like Ruby @rebornix
  • 🏃 Add 'Reindent all Lines' command Reindent all lines #18958 @rebornix
• Format on Paste (setting) Support format on paste #13945 @rebornix @jrieken
• Monaco editor: remove IE9 and IE10 support Remove IE 9 and 10 workarounds #18057 @rebornix @alexandrudima

Languages

• Language protocol
  • Version 3 of the language server protocol #140@dbaeumer
• Markdown
  • Synchronized scrolling in markdown preview Support to scroll markdown preview with source scrolling #5047 @mjbvz
• Emmet
  • Add support for loading emmet preferences, profiles and snippets from external files Emmet extensions_path option #11679 @ramya-rao-a
• SCSS
  • Add support for the map syntax [scss] scss map syntax showing as an error #1758 @aeschli
• TypeScript/JavaScript
  • ATA UI improvements UX improvements for automated typings acquisition #15209 @mjbvz @jrieken
  • TS 2.1.5 adoption Adopt TypeScript 2.1.5 #18052 @mjbvz
  • Reference code lens ✋ on some TS issues Reference Code Lens for TypeScript #18054 @mjbvz

Extensions

• Disable an extension pack Disable extension pack with its dependencies #16666 @sandy081
• Add extension packs category Create Extension Pack Category #18056 @waderyan
• Add a yeoman generator for an extension pack @egamma
• Dynamic extension recommendation improvement (add language ID and extension ID) Improve dynamic extension recommendations #18147 @joaomoreno @waderyan

Debugging

• Just my code UI
  • Support node core modules (introduce magic path) Just my code: introduce a magic path for core modules #16918 @weinand @isidorn
  • Introduce 'deemphasize' style of Source objects in CALL STACK view Honor 'deemphasize' hint of Source objects in CALL STACK view  #18396 @isidorn @weinand
  • extension based implementation Debugging - UI/protocol support for "blackbox script"/"Just my code" #14728 @roblourens @isidorn
• Support 'restart' option for 'launch' requests Support 'restart' option on 'launch' configs too #17381 @weinand
• Improvements and adoptions of printing objects in the debug console Switch to variablesReference logging for all cases vscode-chrome-debug-core#145 @roblourens @isidorn
• Enable source maps by default to simplify configuration Enable source maps by default to simplify configuration vscode-chrome-debug-core#134 @roblourens @weinand
• Show inline values in source when stepping Show inline values in source when stepping through code #13424 @isidorn
• Review and assess user testing feedback, explore improvements to simplify setup Debug setup simplification (user testing) #18098 @weinand @isidorn @roblourens
  • Explore support to launch/debug single files when there is no project folder and no launch.json Debugging without an open folder #285 @isidorn @weinand
  • Revisit the 'add configuration' button UI to add a configuration snippet Revisit the 'add configuration' button UI to add a configuration snippet #18359 @isidorn
• Add launch config snippets for common node scenarios Add launch config snippets for common node scenarios #18776 @weinand

Extension Authoring

• Source Control provider API Provisional SCM API & git extension #15894 @joaomoreno
  • Provide preview of Git support running from an extension Polish git as an SCM extension #18615
• Debug - support to launch an adapter through an extension Allow extensions to handle launching of the debug adapter. #8645 @weinand @isidorn
• Leverage TS support for readonly properties in API (replace readonly doc annotation) use new readonly modifier #12732 @jrieken
• Progress API Explore providing an API for providing progress information #18066 @jrieken

Contributions to Extensions

• php parser adoption and completion PHP parser explorations #15818 @mousetraps
• TSLint support to selectively enable JS validation https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-tslint/issues/149 @egamma
• Go - add telemetry Add Telemetry vscode-go#646 @ramya-rao-a
• Go - Explore Go language server seeded by SourceGraph Trial use of Go language server by sourcegraph  vscode-go#706 @ramya-rao-a
• Go - Implement Step Out feature in debugging @ramya-rao-a

Engineering

• Performance
  • Continue work on startup performance Improve workbench start-up performance #15455 @jrieken @bpasero
  • Invest into tools for measuring the startup performance Tools to analyse/share startup performance #18087 @jrieken
  • Enable that a user can easily report a startup perf problem. Explore document/publish how user can run a startup perf report, ask user to create an issue with the report #18080 @bpasero
• Proxy support - provide setup so that community can help us with proxy testing Help Wanted: Proxy testing #18103 @joao
• Explore what it takes to ship VS Code as a UWP application Explore what it takes to ship VS Code as a UWP application  #15820 @bpasero
• Telemetry
  • Add metrics like last 7/28 day active and last active day for events like File read/write by mime type, extension activation, core feature usage and type of workspace @ramya-rao-a

Documentation

• Docathon December Doc-a-thon vscode-docs#702

Deferred

23/01

• Improve exception experience Improve exception experience #16860 @weinand @isidorn
• Column break points Breakpoints on particular column #14784 @isidorn @weinand
• Auto indent: auto indent lines when moving them up/down @rebornix

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17/01

• Keyboard layout improvements Move keybinding dispatching off e.keyCode #17521 @alexandrudima
• ✋ Support large extension, adopt new marketplace support Adopt Marketplace large extensions support #18146 @joaomoreno
• Additional theming options in the workbench Support to theme the entire workbench #3112 @bpasero @aeschli
• ✋ Linux auto update/auto signing rpm & repository for Fedora Linux #229 Distribute VS Code via a signed apt repository #2973 @Tyriar
• Investigate in applying the Settings UI improvements to keybinding customization Investigate and Improve Key bindings customisations experience #18095 @sandy081 @bgashler1
• ESLint support multi-round auto fixes #154@dbaeumer
• Adopt new Status Codes APIs for Intellisense Status codes and well-defined errors in XYZProvider interfaces #15454 @jrieken
• Adopt cancellation token support Adopt cancellation token support in TS Server #18053 @mjbvz

[joh]

Suspect I was mentioned here by mistake (I have no affiliation with this project).

[LiPengfei19820619]

Would you please add "provide setting file text encoding API to extensions" to the plan?
Thanks.

[egamma]

@joh fixed... sorry, but we always welcome contributions 😄

[egamma]

@LiPengfei19820619 thanks for your comment, but remember that commenting on the iteration plan is not the best way to make a feature request. Please see our guidelines

[buzzzzer]

@egamma @LiPengfei19820619`s comment its not FR, its heart-cry )))
When the source code in different encodings different from utf*, development on vs turns into hell,but we still love it.

p.s. sorry for flood

[egamma]

@buzzzzer @LiPengfei19820619 I understand and I'm glad you still like VS Code. This sounds like #5388 and you can vote on this issue over there.