Remote Iteration Plan for June 2021

[kieferrm]

This plan captures our work in June. 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

• Port forwarding add protocol configuration support to the tunnel API @alexr00

Remote-SSH

• Investigate recent SSH connection issues #5116 @roblourens
• 💪 Provide an option for a pre-configured range of ports that the server can use #1386 @roblourens

Remote-Container

• Explore to support "host requirements" in devContainer.json #5189 @chrmarti
• Engineering: explore publishing the extension through a CI/CD flow #5069 @chrmarti

Remote Samples

• None.

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Deferred

• None.

[gyzerok]

Can't wait for this stretch goal to finally hit "merge"! I've been looking for this feature for almost a year now. So excited you are finally doing it :)