Remote: Iteration Plan for January 2022

[kieferrm]

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
⬛	a large work item, larger than one iteration

Core

• None.

Remote-SSH

• Investigate support for RemoteCommand vscode-remote-release#4474 @tanhakabir
• Add command to kill the vscode server on currently connected host vscode-remote-release#3170 @tanhakabir
• Properly clean up old server data in remotes vscode-remote-release#5955 @tanhakabir

Remote-Container

• Investigate into code sharing opportunities with remote SSH @chrmarti @roblourens @tanhakabir vscode-remote-release#6137
• Add JSON schema for work-in-progress features.json vscode-remote-release#5980 @chrmarti @joshspicer @Chuxel
• 'Add development configuration files' support to navigate to the documentation for a configuration microsoft/vscode-remote-release#5899 @chrmarti
• Investigate firing feature entrypoint in the case of docker compose vscode-remote-release#5983 @chrmarti
• Engineering - Adopt the preview extension support vscode-remote-release#6169 @chrmarti

Remote-WSL

• None.

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Deferred

• None.