Jupyter: Iteration Plan for November 2021

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This plan captures our work in November. 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

Jupyter Notebook Focus Areas

• 🏃 Maintain empty list of issues labeled as an important Golden Scenario issue. @greazer team
• 🏃 Improve key kernel enumeration, selection, startup, crashing, hanging issues. vscode-jupyter#7901 @DonJayamanne
  • Install pip when not detected when attempting to install ipykernel vscode-jupyter#7739
  • Display warning when user selects outdated versions of Python vscode-jupyter#7960
  • !pip not installing packages as expected vscode-jupyter#6864
  • Recommend renaming python file if python file it overwrites builtins vscode-jupyter#8195
  • Better handling of failed ipykernel installations & ipykernel detection vscode-jupyter#7902
  • Failure to activate conda env results in failure to detect if ipykernel is installed vscode-jupyter#8119
  • 🏃 Slow Kernel startup/restart vscode-jupyter#7849
• 🏃 Improve key intellisense scenarios for notebooks. vscode-jupyter#7912 @rchiodo & pylance team
  • Pri 1: Modernize concat doc algorithm vscode-jupyter#8075
  • Pri 1: Don't Autocomplete on '%' vscode-jupyter#7880

Quality and Stability

• Iterate / Experiment on possibilities for addressing long output workflows vscode-jupyter#7096 @greazer @rebornix
• 🏃 Non-blocking golden scenario issues @IanMatthewHuff, @amunger
• 🏃 Must-fix bug query @IanMatthewHuff, @amunger, @greazer team
• 💪 Nice-to-have bug query @IanMatthewHuff, @amunger, @greazer team

Engineering

• 💪 🏃 Update old webview tests to work against native vscode-jupyter#6516, vscode-jupyter#7028 @rchiodo
• 💪 🏃 Simplify Code clean-up/simplification in the Jupyter extension vscode-jupyter#6950 @DonJayamanne @rchiodo
• 💪 Provide automated performance test suite vscode-jupyter#7437 team

Deferred

• None.