Remote: Iteration Plan for May 2023

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This plan captures our work in May 2023. 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

• Improvements to Remote Explorer vscode-remote-release#8397 @joyceerhl @chrmarti @aeschli @connor4312 @roblourens
• Allow Remote Resolver extensions to be web extensions vscode#183267 @connor4312 @aeschli
• Allow users to quickly make port public after discovery on web vscode-remote-release#8442 @alexr00
• ✋ Configure a port as public in portsAttributes vscode-remote-release#6363 @alexr00

Dev Container Specification / CLI

• None.

Dev Containers Extension

• 💪 Attach to Kubernetes: Support container metadata vscode-remote-release#7880 @chrmarti

Remote-SSH

• None.

WSL

• Provide a WSL Resolver web extension vscode-remote-release#8518@aeschli
• Explore adopting the CLI for starting/managing the VS Code Server on WSL vscode-remote-release#7864 @connor4312 @aeschli

Remote Repositories

• Allow checking out branches on vscode.dev from the branch picker vscode#176333 @joyceerhl @lszomoru
• Improvements to the GitHub Repositories extension query @joyceerhl

Remote-Tunnel

• Adopt Remote Resolvers in the Remote-Tunnel web extension vscode-remote-tunnels#633 @connor4312
• Support applying VS Code updates while the CLI is running in service mode vscode#177226 @aeschli @connor4312
• Provide end-to-end smoke tests for Remote-Tunnel vscode-remote-tunnels#625 @connor4312

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Deferred

• Fix password prompt on folder open vscode-remote-release#6227 @eleanorjboyd @roblourens
• Attempt reconnection following device short sleep vscode-remote-release#5755 @eleanorjboyd
• Reload remote explorer when editing ssh config vscode-remote-release#7144 @eleanorjboyd