Jupyter: 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
🔁	repeating activity from iteration to iteration
🔴	missing issue reference
🔵	more investigation required to remove uncertainty
⚫	under discussion within the team

Jupyter Notebook High Priority

• 🔁 Maintain empty list of issues labeled as an important Golden Scenario or significant regression issue. @greazer team

General

• 🏃 Paste Images into Markdown cells vscode-jupyter#5321, vscode#119961 @Yoyokrazy, @amunger, @mjbvz
• Copy images from cell outputs to clipboard vscode#129880 @amunger
• Cleanup handling of environment variables when starting kernels vscode-jupyter#10359 @DonJayamanne
• Interactive Window hot exit vscode-jupyter#10733 @rebornix
• 🏃 Drive scenarios and behavior for IW Input Box Intellisense plan across Python, Pylance, LSP, Jupyter vscode-jupyter#10630 vscode#151994 @rchiodo @debonte
• 💪 🔴 Submit bug fix for ZMQ to allow us to build and ship without regressions. Required for vscode-jupyter#5206 @rchiodo

Web-enablement

• Polish support for remote Jupyter server URI's for web and desktop vscode-jupyter#10672 vscode-jupyter#10675 vscode-jupyter#10782 @rchiodo
• Dataframe viewer vscode-jupyter#9665, vscode-jupyter#10200 @sadasant
• Plot viewer vscode-jupyter#10405 @sadasant
• Jupyter can't be activated on Safari vscode-jupyter#10621 @DonJayamanne
• 💪 Remote files and synchronization story vscode-jupyter#1366, vscode-jupyter#9975 @rchiodo
• 🏃 💪 intellisense full support vscode-jupyter#9976 @rchiodo, pylance team, python team

Getting started

• Clean up messaging and notifications for the Jupyter / Python first run scenarios @IanMatthewHuff
  • vscode-jupyter#6886
  • vscode-jupyter#7907
  • vscode-jupyter#10615
  • vscode-jupyter#10658
  • vscode-jupyter#10697
  • vscode-jupyter#10696
  • vscode-jupyter#10793

Engineering

• 🏃 Kernel architecture review and polish vscode-jupyter#10832 @rebornix, @DonJayamanne
• Further clarify and implement changes to improve our CI process vscode-jupyter#10634 mainly in regard to tests. @amunger, @greazer team
• 🏃 Improve build time vscode-jupyter#10399 @rebornix, @rchiodo
• Resolve notebook output id metadata with API team vscode-jupyter#9629 @sadasant
• 💪 🔴 Debugging/debugger architecture review and polish @sadasant

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Deferred

• Investigate a method to create or suggest a virtual environment with ipykernel + needed packages for a given notebook vscode-jupyter#9640 @IanMatthewHuff