Remote: Iteration Plan for July 2019

[kieferrm]

This plan captures our work on the Remote development extensions in July. We follow the same iteration cycle as VS Code. Although we plan for a whole iteration, we not only ship at the end of an iteration but throughout.

We'll focus on stability, improving the first time user experience, and overall polishing.

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 - Core

• Align presentation of empty workbench on startup with SSH (show explorer if not visible, show terminal) Align presentation of empty workbench on startup with SSH #954 @aeschli
• Add command 'Install locally installed extensions' that supports to selectively install workspace extensions into the Provide Command to Install all local workspace extensions into the remote #157 remote @sandy081
• Bring Open In Terminal to Remote Add "Open In Terminal" option when right-clicking a folder #774 @Tyriar

Remote - SSH

• Explore support for SSH Agent forwarding Does not support agent forwarding - committing on remote host via SSH fails #16 @roblourens
• Explore further improvements to password authentication Explore ways to reduce number of SSH connections needed to connect a window using the SSH extension #642 @roblourens
• Explore connection sharing between windows that connect to the same host ControlMaster is not supported on Windows - find a workaround or document it #96 @roblourens
• Explore installing the VS Code server through the VS Code client Use VS Code Remote Development w/o marketplace, update connectivity #15 @roblourens

Remote - Containers

Remote - WSL

• Tune polling file watcher work around for WSL1 Tune polling file watcher work around for WSL1 #953 @aeschli
• Support the Alpine distro WSL: Support Alpine #952 @aeschli
• 🏃 WSL Blog post series @chrisdias

Extension Contributions

• Add a VS Code Remote integration for the Peacock extension Integration with VS Code Remote johnpapa/vscode-peacock#187 @egamma

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Deferred Items

• 🏃 Add commands 'Open Workspace in Container', 'Reopen Workspace in Container' Open Workspace in Container... improve support for multi root workspaces #387 @aeschli
• Generalize SSH explorer to allow contributions from Containers and WSL Generalize SSH explorer to also be usable for Containers and WSL #926 @kieferrm
• Investigate reconnect reliability Investigate reconnection reliability #955 @alexandrudima

[WSLUser]

🔴 Explore installing the VS Code server through the VS Code client

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