Remote: Iteration Plan for September 2019

[kieferrm]

This plan captures our work on the Remote development extensions in September. We follow the same iteration cycle as VS Code. Although we plan for a whole iteration, we 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

Remote - Core

• Polish behavior of the Remote Explorer (labels, section expand state) Remote Explorer polish #1426 @roblourens
• Investigate opening a remote workspace from the command line open remote directory/file from client machine's command line #585 @aeschli
• Activate UI extensions installed into a remote VS Code Server Activate UI extensions installed into a remote VS Code Server #1400 @alexandrudima

Remote - SSH

• Support connection sharing between windows that connect to the same host ControlMaster is not supported on Windows - find a workaround or document it #96 @roblourens
• Improve error messages when target platforms don't match minimal requirements Improve error messages for ssh linux remotes that don't meet the requirements #1427 @roblourens
• Explore fusing the SSH explorer extension with the SSH core extension Merge SSH explorer extension into main SSH extension #1428 @roblourens
• Support the VS Code Server on Windows in Insiders Windows Server Support #25 @roblourens
• SSH Blog post series @sana-ajani @gregvanl

Remote - Containers

• Improve 'Attach to Running Container' support Improve Attach to Running Container support #1383 @chrmarti
• Support to open/clone a repository into a volume Support to open a repository into a volume #1395 @egamma @chrmarti
• Prompt to rebuild on reload if devcontainer.json or associated Dockerfile/compose files have been updated Prompt to rebuild on reload if devcontainer.json or associated Dockerfile/compose files have been updated #758 @chrmarti
• Support all docker related settings provided by the Docker extension Adopt new Docker settings from Docker extension #859 @chrmarti
• Polish Remote explorer contribution Remote Explorer - Container contribution polish #1382 @alexr00
• 🏃 Support 'ServerReady' for containers serverReadyAction (and by extenstion vscode.env.openExternal) should forward 0.0.0.0:port as well as localhost:port - and reuse the input port unless already in use #1115 @weinand
• Alpine container definitions Alpine 3.10 container vscode-dev-containers#126 @Chuxel
• 🏃 Container Blog post series @bowdenk7 @gregvanl

Remote - WSL

• Contribute to remote explorer (installed distro, recents) Use remote explorer contribution point to add WSL to remote explorer #1142 @alexr00 @aeschli
• Continued WSL2 fixes as they come up @aeschli
• Investigate WSL2 and Docker extension Honor the Docker context when running in WSL 2 vscode-docker#1199 @fiveisprime
• Investigate Remote - Containers and WSL2 VSCode Freezes During Dev Containers Initialization with Docker Desktop WSL 2 Tech Preview #1089 @Chuxel
• 🏃 Add VS Code + Remote WSL extension in Windows/WSL 2 docs @fiveisprime

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Deferred Items

• Investigate: Reducing reliance on runArgs for common scenarios: mount points, environment variables Investigate: Reducing reliance on runArgs for common scenarios: mount points, environment variables #1201 @chrmarti
• WSL2 + Docker Blog post @fiveisprime @gregvanl
• 🔴 💪 Support to debug the local and remote Extension Host at the same time @weinand
• 🔴 💪 Investigate automatic port forwarding based on console output Investigate automatic port forwarding based on console output #1439 @weinand

[bhack]

Any space for the top 2 issues in the Containers section?
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-remote-release/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort%3Areactions-%2B1-desc+label%3Acontainers

[pwwang]

Any workaround for centos6 servers without root privileges?
A lot of users encountered this and suffered from it. #103