Jupyter: Iteration Plan for September 2022

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This plan captures our work in September. 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
🔁	repeating activity from iteration to iteration
🔴	missing issue reference
🔵	more investigation required to remove uncertainty
⚫	under discussion within the team

General

• Support pasting images into Markdown cells vscode-jupyter#5321 @rebornix @mjbvz @amunger
• Investigate a notebook/cell metadata editor vscode-jupyter#1182 @rebornix
• Provide support for tagging cells using cell metadata vscode-jupyter#1121 @rebornix

Outputs

• 🏃 Fix crashes caused by large outputs vscode-jupyter#11031 @DonJayamanne @roblourens @rebornix
• 🏃 Investigate how to render stored Plotly, Vega outputs when opening a notebook vscode-jupyter#11218 @DonJayamanne @mjbvz
• 🏃 Render stored Matplotlib png output as a fallback when opening a notebook vscode-jupyter#8635 @DonJayamanne @mjbvz
• Explore support for iPyWidgets 8 vscode-jupyter#11217 @DonJayamanne

Kernels

• 🏃 Review/rethink Server/Kernel picker vscode-jupyter#11077 @IanMatthewHuff @minsa110
• Use "Learn more..." buttons to guide users to more information vscode-jupyter#11285 @IanMatthewHuff
• 🏃 Adopt the new Python Extension API for python environments vscode-jupyter#7583 @DonJayamanne

Debugging

• Improve reliability of Run-by-Line vscode-jupyter#11006 @roblourens
• Restart Run-by-Line debugging session when stopped in a python file vscode-jupyter#7611 @roblourens
• 🏃 Remove notifications about why library code was not stepped into microsoft/debugpy#1019 @roblourens
• Test debugging when connected to a Jupyter Server microsoft/vscode-jupyter#11406 @roblourens

Interactive Window

• Improve keyboard navigation in the Interactive Window vscode#148820 @amunger
• Stabilize the Interactive Window https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-jupyter/issues?q=is%3Aopen+label%3Ainteractive-window+label%3Abug+milestone%3A%22September+2022%22 @amunger
• Support folding of cells in python files vscode-jupyter#1527 @amunger

Engineering

• Enable queries on CI test run history vscode-jupyter#9218 @amunger

Deferred

• Kernel architecture review and polish vscode-jupyter#10832 @rebornix @DonJayamanne
• Enable ipykernel 6 debugging in the interactive window query @roblourens
• Debugging/debugger architecture review and polish vscode-jupyter#11108 @roblourens
• Show in editor progress when connecting to a kernel (not just the notification) @rebornix @DonJayamanne vscode-jupyter#11161
• Drive scenarios and behavior for IW Input Box Intellisense plan across Python, Pylance, LSP, Jupyter vscode-jupyter#10630 vscode#151994
• Remote files and synchronization story vscode-jupyter#1366, vscode-jupyter#9975
• Intellisense full support vscode-jupyter#9976