Jupyter: Iteration Plan for January 2022

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This plan captures our work in January. 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

• Create NPM module to share notebook concat behavior between Jupyter and PyLance vscode-jupyter#8467 @rchiodo
• Maintain empty list of issues labeled as an important Golden Scenario issue. @greazer team
• Non-blocking golden scenario bugs for January 2022 (excludes enhancements) @greazer team, @rebornix, @roblourens
• Regressions, Papercuts, and Polish for existing workflows @greazer team, @rebornix, @roblourens
• Move to pre-release extension model Jupyter PR, vscode#15756 @rchiodo
• 💪 Investigate enabling the jupyter extension as a web extension vscode-jupyter#8664 @amunger

Engineering

• 🏃 Document Jupyter kernels and management architecture and code within the extension @DonJayamanne @greazer team vscode-jupyter-internal#241
• Document Intellisense and other extension architecture and code structure within the extension @rchiodo @greazer team vscode-jupyter-internal#241
• 💪 🏃 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 @rchiodo @greazer team

Deferred (Due to key resource constraints)

• 🏃 Improve key kernel enumeration, selection, startup, crashing, hanging issues. vscode-jupyter#7901 @DonJayamanne
• 🔴 💪 Release experimental Scratchpad for Jupyter Notebooks extension. @rchiodo
• 🔴 💪 Release experimental Context help for Jupyter Notebooks extension. @rchiodo
• 💪 Nice-to-have bug query @greazer team, @rebornix, @roblourens