Remote: Iteration Plan for November 2023

[kieferrm]

This plan captures our Remote work in November 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

• Proxy: send local CAs to WSL/devcontainers when --use-host-proxy is used vscode-remote-release#9176 @chrmarti

Dev Container Specification / CLI

• Add option to opt out of extensions vscode-remote-release#9177 @chrmarti
• Review extensions that are part of base images vscode-remote-release#9174 @chrmarti

Dev Containers Extension

• Support archiving the vscode-dev-containers repo vscode-remote-release#8994 @chrmarti
• Automatically install useful workspace extensions in devcontainers if they are installed locally vscode-remote-release#9173 @chrmarti
• Explore being able to open a folder in a dev container without a devcontainer.json vscode-remote-release#9175 @chrmarti

SSH Extension

• 🏃 Roll-out exec server implementation vscode-remote-release#9077 @connor4312

Tunnels

• None.

Remote Repositories

• 🏃 Improvements to the GitHub Repositories extension query @joyceerhl

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Deferred

• None.