Remote: Iteration Plan for July 2022

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This plan captures our work in July. 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

Dev Container Specification / CLI

• Features v2 devcontainers/cli#73 @chrmarti
• Add features test ... command devcontainers/cli#11 @chrmarti
• Add description property to a feature devcontainers/cli#58 @chrmarti
• Support multiple --image-name parameters devcontainers/cli#61 @chrmarti
• Move dev container json schema out of vscode repo and publish/consume it via schemastore.org devcontainers/spec#14 @aeschli @chrmarti
• Update CLI docs vscode-docs#5436 @bamurtaugh @gregvanl
• 🏃 Discuss community contribution plans devcontainers/spec/pull#40 @bamurtaugh @chrmarti

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Deferred

• Install a feature more than once devcontainers/spec#44 @chrmarti
• Replace old devcontainer CLI with new CLI in path vscode-remote-release#6859 @chrmarti
• Add code CLI argument to open folder in container using remote containers extension vscode-remote-release#6771 @chrmarti