Remote Iteration Plan for April 2021

[kieferrm]

This plan captures our work in April. 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.

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

• Do not auto forward debug port by inform tunneling service about debug ports Provide extension API to exclude ports from forwarding vscode#115616 @alexr00 @connor4312
• Ports view polish Port forwarding polish #4826 @alexr00
• Investigate why custom views don't load correctly in remote scenarios WebView port mapping not working under Remote SSH vscode#102449 @mjbvz
• Investigate in improved rendering of the Remote Command Palette Slim down the rendering of the remote command palette #4831 @aeschli

Remote-SSH

• 💪 Provide an option for a pre-configured range of ports that the server can use Support custom remote ports #1386 @roblourens
• 💪 Explore how the resolver can deal more flexibly with long install scripts Windows Remote-SSH install script has a character limit #4487 @roblourens

Remote-Container

• Simplify the rendering of containers in the Remote Explorer Remote Explorer: Simplify how Containers are rendered #4829 @alexr00
• Investigate into installing docker when it isn't installed Investigate into installing docker when it isn't installed #4906 @chrmarti
• Add support for viewing and managing volumes in the Remote Explorer Add support for viewing and managing volumes in the remote explorer #4830 @egamma
• Simplify 'Clone Repository in Container Volume' command @egamma

Remote Samples

• Review whether the recent port attributes improvements should be demonstrated in the samples Review whether the recent port attributes improvements should be demonstrated in the samples #4838 @bamurtaugh

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Deferred

• None.