Remote: Iteration Plan for September 2020 #3669
Description
This plan captures our work on the Remote development extensions in September. We follow the same iteration cycle as VS Code. Although we plan for a whole iteration, we 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 |
| 🔴 | missing issue reference |
| 🔵 | more investigation required to remove uncertainty |
| ⚫ | under discussion within the team |
| ⬛ | a large work item, larger than one iteration |
Remote - Core
- Notify user when an automatically detected port is forwarded Notify user when an automatically detected port is forwarded #3662 @alexr00
Remote - SSH
- 🏃 Investigate reliability of Remote-SSH connections Investigate reliability of Remote-SSH connections #3670 @bamurtaugh @roblourens
Remote - Containers
- Improve creation log access and rendering Improve creation log access and rendering #3666 @chrmarti
- 🏃 Support to rebuild and open the
devcontainer.jsonfrom the Container details section Dev container innerloop polish: rebuild and opendevcontainer.jsonfrom the Container details section #3667 @chrmarti - Improve the dev container innerloop when cloning a repository into a container volume Improve the dev container innerloop when cloning a repository into a container volume #3664 @egamma
VS Code Devcontainer Configurations
- Onboard additional definitions to image build [Tracking] Onboard additional definitions to image build vscode-dev-containers#154 @Chuxel
- Build out "library-scripts" for dev container configurations [Tracking] Misc script library tasks vscode-dev-containers#560 @Chuxel
Remote - WSL
- Investigate how to guide users to the first WSL session after they have installed the WSL extension Investigate how to guide users to the first WSL session after they have installed the WSL extension #3671 @aeschli @bamurtaugh
- Investigate inheriting the environment from the process where
code .is executed [wsl] inherit environment from process wherecode .is executed #1700 @aeschli - Document how to get more detailed error logs and core dump files [wsl] Document how to get more detailed error logs and core dump files #3679 @aeschli
Deferred Items
- Investigate supporting
.code-workspace fileattribute indevcontainer.jsonAllow a default ".code-workspace" file to open to be specified in devcontainer.json #1124 #3665 @chrmarti - 💪 Warn user when deleting a container volume that has uncommitted changes @chrmarti