Remote: Iteration Plan for April 2023

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This plan captures our work in April 2023. 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.

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

Core

• 🏃 Improvements to the Remote Explorer vscode#178854 @joyceerhl

Dev Container Specification / CLI

• None.

Dev Containers Extension

• Implement DevContainer Lockfile @chrmarti vscode-remote-release#8330
• 💪 Attach to Kubernetes: Support container metadata vscode-remote-release#7880 @chrmarti

Remote-SSH

• None.

WSL

• 🏃 Explore adopting the CLI for starting/managing the VS Code Server on WSL vscode-remote-release#7864 @connor4312 @aeschli

Remote Repositories

• Support committing Git LFS files from web vscode-remote-repositories-github#7 @joyceerhl
• Break Remote Repositories extension's dependency on the git-base extension vscode#177944 @joyceerhl
• Improvements to the GitHub Repositories extension query @joyceerhl

Remote-Tunnel

• 🏃 Support applying VS Code updates while the CLI is running in service mode vscode#177226 @aeschli @joaomoreno

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Deferred

• Investigate more graceful disconnection vscode#173603 @aeschli
• Fix password prompt on folder open vscode-remote-release#6227 @eleanorjboyd @roblourens
• Attempt reconnection following device short sleep vscode-remote-release#5755 @eleanorjboyd
• Reload remote explorer when editing ssh config vscode-remote-release#7144 @eleanorjboyd