Remote: Iteration Plan for January 2023

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This plan captures our work in January. 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

Dev Container Specification / CLI

• Update schema to equivalent of inlining allOf devcontainers/spec#93 @aeschli @chrmarti

Core

• Rethink and clean-up contributions to the remote indicator vscode-remote-release#7741 @aeschli @chrmarti @eleanorjboyd @joyceerhl
• Create a new devcontainer.json for the vscode repository that is simpler vscode#170969 @chrmarti

Dev Containers Extension

• 🏃 Full support for folders with multiple devcontainer.json files vscode-remote-release#7548 @chrmarti
• Hint to rebuild container after adding a feature vscode-remote-release#7592 @chrmarti
• Polish "Create Dev Container..." vscode-remote-release#7629 @chrmarti
• Investigate docker credential forwarding vscode-remote-release#7184 @chrmarti
• 🏃 Take advantage of container metadata when attaching vscode-remote-release#7872 @chrmarti
• 💪 🔴 Indicate that bind mounts are slower (on Windows) in the Remote Explorer info tree view @chrmarti

WSL

• 💪 Download server bits when updating and WSL was used recently vscode-remote-release#3839 @aeschli
• 🏃 Explore adopting the CLI for starting/managing the VS Code Server on WSL vscode-remote-release#7864 @aeschli @connor4312

Remote-SSH

• 🏃 Adopt new error type in SSH resolver vscode#163241 @eleanorjboyd @roblourens
• 💪 Attempt reconnection following device short sleep vscode-remote-release#5755 @eleanorjboyd @roblourens
• 💪 Find workaround for new Windows bug vscode-remote-release#7272 @eleanorjboyd

Remote-Tunnel

• Prevent sleep: vscode-remote-release#7125 @connor4312
• 💪 Support "Allow Tunnel access" for the remote when connected to a SSH/WSL remote window vscode-remote-release#7865 @aeschli @connor4312
• Improve reconnection reliability vscode-remote-tunnels#565 vscode-remote-tunnels#569 @connor4312
• 🏃 CLI invocations should connect to the running CLI process vscode#171520 @connor4312 @aeschli

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Deferred

• Adopt CLI service mode in "Turn on Remote Tunnel Access" vscode#171520 @aeschli