Remote: Iteration Plan for September 2021 #5552
Description
This plan captures our work in September. 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 |
Remote-Container
- 🏃 Simplify dev container definition with reusable 'dev container features' vscode-remote-release#5442 @chrmarti @Chuxel
- Adopt port forwarding to another host vscode-remote-release#3450 vscode-remote-containers#150 @alexr00 @chrmarti
- Support to attach to a Podman container running under WSL vscode-remote-release#5550 @chrmarti
- Create an arm64 build of the VS Code server for Alpine vscode-remote-release#5187 @TylerLeonhardt
Remote-WSL
- Investigate whether platform specific extensions can be leveraged for WSL and constrain the installation to Windows vscode#23251 @aeschli @sandy081
Deferred
- Provide an option for a pre-configured range of ports that the server can use vscode-remote-release#1386 @roblourens