Python: Iteration Plan for April 2022

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This plan captures our work in April. We follow the same iteration cycle as VS Code. Although we plan for a whole iteration, we may not only ship at the end of an iteration but throughout.

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

Getting started

• 🏃‍♀ Create the WWBD extension w/ an opinionated flow for environment creation and requirements installation; @brettcannon

Environments

• Fix venv watcher tests; issue; @karrtikr @karthiknadig
• python.selectInterpreter not working on code-server; issue; @karrtikr
• Don't inherit the environment in a dev container for conda; issue; @karrtikr

Editing

• Don't prompt to restart to load Pylance; issue; @kimadeline
• Move UI for module rename refactoring over to the core extension; @kimadeline

LSP

• 🏃‍♀️ Create a programmatic definition of LSP; issue; @karthiknadig
• ✋ Explore pygls adopting programmatic definition of LSP (for notebook support); issue; @karthiknadig

Terminal

• 🏃‍♀️ 🔵 Explore options for activated terminals and terminal profiles vscode-python#11039 @luabud @karrtikr

Debugging

• ${env:...} variables are not being passed via launch.json; issue; @paulacamargo25
• 🏃‍♀️ 🔵 Investigate automatic debug configuration based on the open workspace; issue; @paulacamargo25

Formatting

• Create a black extension; issue; @karthiknadig
• Create an isort extension; issue; @karthiknadig

Linting

None

Testing

• Rewrite test discovery for unittest vscode-python#17242; @kimadeline
• 🔴 ⬛ Rewrite test execution for unittest; @kimadeline

(github|vscode).dev

None

Documentation

None

Engineering

• ✋🏃‍♀️ Set up localization (desktop and web); issue; @paulacamargo25 @TylerLeonhardt

Python community

• set up collaboration space with LinkedIn for relocatable CPython binaries; @brettcannon
• Define tiered platform support for Python; @brettcannon
• 🏃‍♀️ Deprecate over 20 stdlib modules thanks to PEP 594; @brettcannon
• ✋ Finalize Python Launcher plug-in design (blocked on conda's feedback; discussion; @brettcannon
• Get PEP 685 integrated into the packaging specs; PR; @brettcannon

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Deferred Items

• Investigate environment detection in our overall environment UX to see if there are scenarios where discovery is unnecessary
• Separate environment discovery into a two phases, "raw" and "enriched", so Jupyter can consume the former ASAP
• ✋ 🔵 Work w/ Pylance on automatic indentation vscode-python#481 @brettcannon (blocked on VS Code issue)
• ✋ Create platform-specific VSIXs (blocked on standardizing on extension pipelines supporting platform-specific VSIXs); vscode-python#17439 @paulacamargo25
• Infer environment variables for an activated conda environment vscode-python#17332 @karrtikr
• Rewrite test discovery for pytest vscode-python#17242 @kimadeline
• Rewrite test execution for unittest
• Rewrite test execution for pytest
• Start work on implementing packaging.metadata; issue; @brettcannon