Python: Iteration Plan for October 2021

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Iteration plan

This plan captures our work in October. 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.

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

Housekeeping

• 🔴 Issue/PR Grooming - review, categorization, assignment team

Environments

• 🏃 Address issues w/ discovery component vscode-python#17250 @karrtikr

Editing

• :Hide UI elements that do not apply in the web vscode-python#17252 @karrtikr

Testing

• 💪 🏃 Rewrite testing adapter vscode-python#17242 @kimadeline

Engineering

• 💪 🏃 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

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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