Remote: Iteration Plan for September 2020

[kieferrm]

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.json from the Container details section Dev container innerloop polish: rebuild and open devcontainer.json from 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 where code . 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

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Deferred Items

• Investigate supporting .code-workspace file attribute in devcontainer.json Allow 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