August Iteration Plan

[kieferrm]

Endgame Schedule

• August, 29th Code freeze for the endgame
• September, 2nd Endgame done

Monday

• Code freeze at 5pm PT
• Ensure we have a green build on all platforms @kieferrm
• All test items contain sufficiently comprehensive test descriptions by 6pm PT

Tuesday

• Test build starts at 7am CET / 10pm PT on Monday
• Test plan ready by 8am CET / 11pm PT on Monday
• Testing

Wednesday

• Testing
• Remind team members to assign issues that they intend to fix to the August milestone
• Fixing (self-assigned, milestone assigned)
• Verification

Thursday

• Fixing (scrutiny sets in - major bugs only - to be discussed in stand-up meeting, labeled as candidate)
• Add/update shrink-wrap files for built-in extensions if needed (see instructions) @dbaeumer
• Update OSSREADME.json for built-in extensions based on differences to generated npm-shrinkwrap.json files if needed @dbaeumer
• Run OSS tool after merging shrink-wrap findings @dbaeumer
  • The LCA review of the ThirdPartyNotices.txt files is not needed anymore
• Check new OSS usage is entered into the OSS registry @dbaeumer

Friday

• Satellite modules/npm packages ready, version updated, smoke tested
  • vscode @bpasero
  • yo generator @aeschli
  • vsce @joaomoreno
  • node debug @weinand
• Translation input - @dbaeumer
• Verification: since there are quite some old bugs to verify we decided to verify by age, youngest first. The queries we used are:
  • Verification needed
  • August Bugs
  • July Bugs
  • June Bugs
  • May Bugs
  • April and Before
• Fixing (only critical bugs - no string changes)
• Smoketest
  • Windows - @alexandrudima
  • OS X - @isidorn
  • Linux - @aeschli
  • Windows - @roblourens
  • OS X - @octref
  • Linux - @rebornix
• All release notes updated. Release notes are collected in a file named 1_5.md in this repo directory
  • @alexandrudima
  • @weinand
  • @bpasero 
  • @chrmarti
  • @Tyriar
  • @dbaeumer
  • @egamma
  • @isidorn 
  • @joaomoreno
  • @jrieken
  • @kieferrm 
  • @aeschli
  • @rebornix
  • @octref
  • @ramya-rao-a
  • @roblourens
  • @sandy081
• Acknowledge pull requests in release notes. We acknowledge PRs from outside the team. @ALL
  • @alexandrudima
  • @weinand
  • @bpasero 
  • @chrmarti
  • @Tyriar
  • @dbaeumer
  • @egamma
  • @isidorn 
  • @joaomoreno
  • @jrieken
  • @kieferrm 
  • @aeschli
  • @rebornix
  • @octref
  • @ramya-rao-a
  • @roblourens
  • @sandy081
• Mention notable fixes in the release notes:
  • @alexandrudima
  • @weinand
  • @bpasero 
  • @chrmarti
  • @Tyriar
  • @dbaeumer
  • @egamma
  • @isidorn 
  • @joaomoreno
  • @jrieken
  • @kieferrm 
  • @aeschli
  • @rebornix
  • @octref
  • @ramya-rao-a
  • @roblourens
  • @sandy081

Friday/Monday

• When done fixing/verifying and there are changes since last build at the end of day PT
  • Trigger new insider build and publish it manually (Friday: @kieferrm, Moday: @dbaeumer)
• Pause scheduled insider builds (Friday: @kieferrm, Moday: @dbaeumer)
• Branch code to `release/1.5 (Friday: @kieferrm, Moday: @dbaeumer)
• Announce master is open for business (Friday: @kieferrm, Moday: @dbaeumer)
• Polish release notes @aweinand

Monday/Tuesday

• Publish Insider with hand-picked and reviewed candidate fixes @dbaeumer

Thursday/Friday

• Build stable for all platforms @dbaeumer
• Smoke test stable build (commit: 4fc690b)
  • Windows - @dbaeumer
  • OS X - @roblourens
  • Linux - @weinand (pls also see dep package item below)
• Sanity check of installable bits
  • Windows
    • signed installer @dbaeumer
    • zip @dbaeumerr
  • Linux
    • deb package 64-bit @weinand
    • deb package 32-bit @Tyriar
    • rpm package 64-bit @Tyriar
    • rpm package 32-bit @Tyriar
    • archives @Tyriar
• Publish website @gregvanl
• Release stable (commit: 4fc690b) @kieferrm
• Add a git tag to HEAD of release/1.5 in format 1.5.z @kieferrm
• Twitter announcement @seanmcbreen
• Enable scheduled insider builds @dbaeumer

1.5.x

• Merge translations @dbaeumer
• Rebuild for all platforms @dbaeumer

General

This plan captures what we work on during August. We will ship early September.
This is a 5 week iteration compared to our usual 4 week iterations.
This release will be fully translated you will see that reflected in our endgame schedule. We will hold back making the stable release available until we have all trandslations.

Vacation/Off time

Several of us who have not yet been on vacation are out on average 1-2 weeks. Thus, team members show up with different loads.

Plan Items

Mark	Description
🏃	work in progress
✋	blocked task
💪	stretch goal for this iteration

Feedback

• Support Intellisense in the Debug Console debugAdapter console intellisense Apis #8114 @weinand @isidor
  • Test Test: suggestions in debug repl #10997
  • Release notes
• Emmet: Enable emmet for other file extensions Feature Request: Enable emmet for other file extensions. #9500 @egamma
  • Test Test: Enable emmet for other languages #9500 #11139
  • Release notes
• Support file icons in explorer Evaluate file icons contributions #10294 @aeschli @bpasero
• 🏃 Continue on Quick Open performance Searching large projects is too slow #55 @chrmarti @bpasero
  • Test Test: QuickOpen file search #11035
  • Release notes
• Add a setting to control Angular-1 tag completion proposals when editing HTML [html] Allow to disable angular1 completion proposals #9797 @aeschli
  • Release notes

Extension Contributions

• 🏃 VIM: Continue to increase command coverage (see VIM extension roadmap) @rebornix
  -Test Test Scrolling and Folding API commands within VSCodeVim #11147
• 🏃 Go: Help managing issues @ramya-rao-a
• ESLint, TSLint, and jsHint: Regular maintenance @dbaeumer @egamma @kieferrm
  • lint on save option
  • 🏃 support to configure location of the linter module
    • Test Test: ESLint #11100
• Language Server Protocol and SDK: Regular maintenance @dbaeumer

API Improvements for Extensions

• VIM: Continue to work on the API gaps backlog (see VIM API Gaps #8997) including
  - Test Test Scrolling and Folding API commands within VSCodeVim #11147
  • Window/page scroll commands Implement Window/Page scroll commands #9609 @sandy081
  • More API to control folding, navigation with folding Feature request: API for managing folding area #9786 @aeschli @sandy081
  • Expose Undo history API Request: Control over history #8096 @alexandrudima
  • Add reason to selection change event Add 'Reason' to SelectionChangeEvent #8093 @jrieken
• Language API
  • Enable more efficient Workspace Symbol Provider by making the offset resolution lazy Not possible to implement WorkspaceSymbolProvider with only offset information? #890 @jrieken
    • Test Test lazy WorkspaceSymbolProvider #11113
  • Support multiple edits for a completion item allowing languages such as Java and C# to automatically add imports CompletionItem - multiple text edits, onDidAcceptCommand #6874 @jrieken
    • Test Test completion enhancements #11111
• Terminal
  • Expose API to run a command in the terminal Expose integrated terminal extension API #9957 @Tyriar
    • Test Test: Integrated terminal API #11133
• Extension doc
  • Add the Language Extension Checklist to our docs @kieferrm

Engineering

• Debt: Refactor editor action/command enablement @alexandrudima
• Add coverage reports to the VS Code builds @alexandrudima
• API - Support programmatic cancellation of quick box @jrieken
  • Test Test cancelable input/quick pick #11110
• Debt: Suggest support, handle incomplete result sets and cleanup.
• Configuration settings - refactor the service to enable write access as an API Simplify the configuration service, enable programmatic modification #8937 @bpasero
  • Test Test: Configuration and environment service cleanup #11023
• Editor - extract more colors defined by the editor as custom settings in themes Extract the colors defined by editor as vs code custom settings in themes #11095 @sandy081
  • Test Tests for custom TM theme settings #11126
  • Release notes
• Electron investigate into adoption of latest version Adopt latest version of Electron #10206 @bpasero
  • we will not switch to a new version of Electron in August
• Extensions:
  • Adopt the installation performance improvements from the Market place Adopt Marketplace CDN changes #10180 @joaomoreno
  • Extension details view: show more information about an installed extension Extension details view should show extension contributions #10366 @joaomoreno
    • Test Test: Extension details view #11118
  • Provide command to update all out of date extensions Add update all extensions button/command #8124 @joaomoreno
    • Test Test: Improve extension bulk update story #11119
  • Support other sorting orders in the extensions viewlet Other sort orders for extensions #8022 @joaomoreno
    • Test Test: Support other sorting orders in the extensions viewlet #11120
  • Provide an option to automatically update outdated extensions @joaomoreno
    • Test Test: Improve extension bulk update story #11119
• Debug:
  • incorporate debug protocol additions backlog @weinand
    • support for intellisense Debug Protocol: support for intellisense vscode-debugadapter-node#48
      • Test Test: suggestions in debug repl #10997
    • support for launching debuggee in VS Code terminal Debug Protocol: support for launching debuggee in VS Code terminal  vscode-debugadapter-node#47
    • Release notes
  • Implement debug target launching in integrated terminal Implement debug target launching in integrated terminal #10574 @isidorn @weinand
    • Test Test: debug target launching in integrated terminal  #11091
    • Release notes
  • Node debugging - continue investigate into supporting/switching to the Chrome Debugger Protocol that comes with node 7.0 Gap Analysis: chrome-debug vs. node-debug vscode-node-debug2#1 @weinand
  • Multi line debug repl input VSCode debug console should support multiline input #8115
    • Test Test: multi line debug repl input #10996
    • Release notes
  • Multi-level chunking of large arrays @isidorn
    • Test Test: Multi level variable paging #10995
    • Release notes
• Integrated Terminal - Continue to work on the Integrated Terminal backlog Integrated Terminal Backlog #9959 @Tyriar. This includes
  • Add scroll bar to integrated terminal Add scroll bar to integrated terminal #6602
    - Test Test: Integrated terminal scroll bar #11134

Feedback Channels

• Error telemetry (managed in VSTS) @ramya-rao-a, @mjbvz
  • Improve performance and fix timeout issue
  • Filter out extension errors, but keep errors from built-in extensions
  • Source map support
  • First steps on
    • Define process for how to digest them
    • web site improvements
• Telemetry @ramya-rao-a, @mjbvz
  • Event completion tests
  • Pipeline tests
• Power BI Dashboards
  • 🏃 Explore BigQuery as a source instead of SQL @mjbvz
  • 🏃 Improve data refresh times by improving SQL queries @ramya-rao-a

UX

• 🏃 Design for horizontal editor layout support Support to split editors horizontally #1749 @stevencl @bgashler1 @bpasero
• 🏃 How to preview complex refactorings (e.g. for Python) @stevencl

Deferred

• Settings - Add API to change a user setting. Allow extensions to set configuration options. #1396 @jrieken additional requirements have emerged, e.g, to also support changing launch.json programmatically (see next item). We need more time to cover this requirement and come up with an API that we are confident with
• ✋ Debug - API support to participate in launch.json generation Debt: Support launch.json creation through extension host code #9061 @isidorn see previous item
• Investigate support for composite undo Support composite Undo #9897 @jrieken @alexandrudima we will start with a spec
• ✋ Show release notes in product Show the release notes in the product instead of providing link #10179 @joaomoreno we have an implementation that fetches the release notes from github, which has the throtteling issue. Plan is to fetch the release notes from the web site. This requires changes to the website
• ✋ VIM extension - improve support for the '.' command need to clarify the requirements
• HTML as extension Extract the html support into an extension #8938 @aeschli not ready yet to replace the current implementation
• ✋ Initial exploration of supporting nested languages. First step is CSS and JS in HTML files such as [html] CSS autocomplete not working inside style in html file #8928. @aeschli depends on HTML as extension Extract the html support into an extension #8938, which didn't finish
• ✋ Explore open/install an extension from the Market Place Explore open/install an extension from the Market Place #10340 @joaomoreno url handler is in place, needs to be exposed in the market place
• ✋ TypeScript: incremental builder @dbaeumer depends on adoption by the TS team, work is currently deferred
• Debug - Debt add globbing support for the outdir attribute in the launch config. work is done, change is risky, will be released to insiders early in the September milestone
• ✋ TypeScript: Adopt TypeScript 2.0 Adopt Typescript 2.0 #10136 @dbaeumer _TS 2.0 will not be available in August _
• ✋ Backspace, left and right in Windows integrated terminal cause prompt to go out of sync Backspace, left and right in Windows integrated terminal cause prompt to go out of sync in Git bash #7345 Originally we had issues to reproduce the problem. We now found that this only happens in the bash on Windows which lowers its priority.

[leaxoy]

#10188 change command+<number> key behaviors.
#10191 redesign shortcut key for sidebar and grant ability to hide sidebar.
#10257 Duplicate action for split editor.
😂 add minimap.
Feedback to github issues directly not for twitter.(right bottom feedback emoji button).
File icons in tabbar not only in explorer.

[glen-84]

Explore extended workbench support for UI themes that may include custom file explorer icons. #?????

• Add file icons support in the explorer
• Add some API to support GUI customization
• Support to theme the entire workbench

Related: #459, #1884.

[glen-84]

@mouhong This issue is not the place for feature requests.

[niieani]

I just wanted to express my appreciation to the whole VSCode team. You guys are doing some fantastic work!
I feel there isn't enough space for praise on GitHub, yet it's so important for any project like this. Knowing from experience, it also keeps people motivated and away from burning-out.
Out of the many public projects out there, you guys are one of the fastest, most agile and best organized I know of.
Bravo and Kudos, VSCode team! 👏 👏 ❤️