Remote: Iteration Plan for October 2022 #7315
Description
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.
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
- Allow resolvers to signal a fatal failure during the initial connection vscode#162590 @alexdima
Dev Containers Extension
- "Create a Dev Container" without needing a folder vscode-remote-release#7363 @chrmarti
Dev Container Specification / CLI
- Make it easier for features to see which user is the remoteUser devcontainers/spec#91 @chrmarti
- Unique ID into volume mount names devcontainers/spec#62 @chrmarti
WSL
- 💪 Download server bits when updating and WSL was used recently vscode-remote-release#3839@aeschli
Remote-SSH
- 🏃 Improvements to SSH config file parsing/writing vscode-remote-release#7321 @eleanorjboyd @roblourens
- ✋ Support new fatal failure workflow vscode#163241 @eleanorjboyd @roblourens
Deferred
- Fix port error message regression vscode-remote-release#5970 @eleanorjboyd @roblourens