Python: Iteration Plan for September 2021

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Iteration plan

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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

Getting started

• Iterate on Python getting started experience vscode-python#17305 @luabud @jmew

Environments

• 🏃 Address issues w/ discovery component vscode-python#17250 @karrtikr
• 🏃 Develop a public API for exposing environments to other extensions vscode-python#17234 @karthiknadig

Editing

• 🏃 Remove Jedi 0.17 and ancillary projects vscode-python#17225 @kimadeline @karthiknadig
• 🔵 Hide UI elements that do not apply to vscode.dev vscode-python#17252 @karrtikr

Terminal

None

Debugging

• Iterate on experiment to remember debug configuration vscode-python#17195 @luabud

Formatting

None

Linting

None

Testing

• UX polish based on feedback vscode-python#17236 @karthiknadig
• 🏃 Rewrite testing adapter vscode-python#17242 @kimadeline
• Iterate on new test icons experiment vscode-python#17197 @luabud

Engineering

• Improve start-up performance vscode-python#17237 @karthiknadig
• 🏃 🔵 Get virtual workspaces w/ Pylance functioning vscode-python#17253 @karrtikr
• 🏃 🔵 Get untrusted workspaces w/ Pylance working vscode-python#17254 @karrtikr
• 🏃 Infer environment variables for an activated conda environment vscode-python#17332 @paulacamargo25
• Finish "Report Issue" command vscode-python#17330 @paulacamargo25

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Deferred items

• ✋ 🔵 Work w/ Pylance on automatic indentation vscode-python#481 @brettcannon
• ✋ Switch to an insiders/nightly extension in the Marketplace vscode-python#17196 @brettcannon
• 🔵 💪 Put flake8 behind LSP vscode-python#17235 @karthiknadig