Jupyter: Iteration Plan for November 2022

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This plan captures our work in November. 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
🔁	repeating activity from iteration to iteration
🔴	missing issue reference
🔵	more investigation required to remove uncertainty
⚫	under discussion within the team

General

• Improve performance for providing .py code lenses vscode-jupyter#11433 @amunger
• Explore improving variables viewer performance vscode-jupyter#11745 @roblourens
• Ensure the variable viewer is never automatically revealed vscode-jupyter#11986 @roblourens
• Support pasting of images by default (not experimental anymore) vscode-jupyter#11987 @mjbvz

Outputs

• Fix crashes caused by large outputs vscode-jupyter#11031 @DonJayamanne @roblourens @rebornix
• 🏃 On notebook restore, fallback if an ipywidget needs an active kernel connection vscode-jupyter#8635 @DonJayamanne @mjbvz

Kernels

• Adopt the new Python Extension API for python environments vscode-jupyter#7583 @DonJayamanne
• Ship prototype of per document kernel source selection under an experimental flag vscode-jupyter#11576 @IanMatthewHuff
• 🏃 Continued polish of the Kernel Picker vscode-jupyter#11904 @rebornix @DonJayamanne
• Show progress on kernel status item when connecting to a kernel (not just the notification) vscode-jupyter#11161 @rebornix @DonJayamanne

Debugging

• Support disabling "justMyCode" for jupyter debugging vscode-jupyter#8146 @roblourens
• Implement Restart for Jupyter debugging vscode-jupyter#7670 @roblourens
• 🏃 Allow disabling "justMyCode" in Interactive Window with ipykernel debugging vscode-jupyter#11777 @roblourens
• 🏃 Investigate debugpy hangs in Jupyter debugging debugpy#1051 @roblourens

Interactive Window

• Add find widget to Interactive Window vscode#130587 @amunger
• 🏃 Clean up Interactive Window creation/restore vscode-jupyter#10808 @amunger

Engineering

• Adopt the npm ADO pipeline for https://github/microsoft/vscode-jupyter-ipywidgets @DonJayamanne

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Deferred

• 💪 Support ipywidget 8 @DonJayamanne vscode-jupyter#8552
• Kernel architecture review and polish vscode-jupyter#10832 @rebornix @DonJayamanne
• Debugging/debugger architecture review and polish vscode-jupyter#11108 @roblourens
• Enable ipykernel 6 debugging in the interactive window query @roblourens
• Remote files and synchronization story vscode-jupyter#1366, vscode-jupyter#9975 @DonJayamanne
• Intellisense full support vscode-jupyter#9976 @IanMatthewHuff