Remote: Iteration Plan for September 2019 #1390
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 |
Remote - Core
- Polish behavior of the Remote Explorer (labels, section expand state) Remote Explorer polish #1426 @roblourens
- Investigate opening a remote workspace from the command line open remote directory/file from client machine's command line #585 @aeschli
- Activate UI extensions installed into a remote VS Code Server Activate UI extensions installed into a remote VS Code Server #1400 @alexandrudima
Remote - SSH
- Support connection sharing between windows that connect to the same host ControlMaster is not supported on Windows - find a workaround or document it #96 @roblourens
- Improve error messages when target platforms don't match minimal requirements Improve error messages for ssh linux remotes that don't meet the requirements #1427 @roblourens
- Explore fusing the SSH explorer extension with the SSH core extension Merge SSH explorer extension into main SSH extension #1428 @roblourens
- Support the VS Code Server on Windows in Insiders Windows Server Support #25 @roblourens
- SSH Blog post series @sana-ajani @gregvanl
Remote - Containers
- Improve 'Attach to Running Container' support Improve Attach to Running Container support #1383 @chrmarti
- Support to open/clone a repository into a volume Support to open a repository into a volume #1395 @egamma @chrmarti
- Prompt to rebuild on reload if
devcontainer.jsonor associated Dockerfile/compose files have been updated Prompt to rebuild on reload if devcontainer.json or associated Dockerfile/compose files have been updated #758 @chrmarti - Support all
dockerrelated settings provided by theDockerextension Adopt new Docker settings from Docker extension #859 @chrmarti - Polish Remote explorer contribution Remote Explorer - Container contribution polish #1382 @alexr00
- 🏃 Support 'ServerReady' for containers serverReadyAction (and by extenstion vscode.env.openExternal) should forward 0.0.0.0:port as well as localhost:port - and reuse the input port unless already in use #1115 @weinand
- Alpine container definitions Alpine 3.10 container vscode-dev-containers#126 @Chuxel
- 🏃 Container Blog post series @bowdenk7 @gregvanl
Remote - WSL
- Contribute to remote explorer (installed distro, recents) Use remote explorer contribution point to add WSL to remote explorer #1142 @alexr00 @aeschli
- Continued WSL2 fixes as they come up @aeschli
- Investigate WSL2 and Docker extension Honor the Docker context when running in WSL 2 vscode-docker#1199 @fiveisprime
- Investigate Remote - Containers and WSL2 VSCode Freezes During Dev Containers Initialization with Docker Desktop WSL 2 Tech Preview #1089 @Chuxel
- 🏃 Add VS Code + Remote WSL extension in Windows/WSL 2 docs @fiveisprime
Deferred Items
- Investigate: Reducing reliance on
runArgsfor common scenarios: mount points, environment variables Investigate: Reducing reliance onrunArgsfor common scenarios: mount points, environment variables #1201 @chrmarti - WSL2 + Docker Blog post @fiveisprime @gregvanl
- 🔴 💪 Support to debug the local and remote Extension Host at the same time @weinand
- 🔴 💪 Investigate automatic port forwarding based on console output Investigate automatic port forwarding based on console output #1439 @weinand