Python: Iteration Plan for March 2022

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This plan captures our work in March. 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.

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

Getting started

• Decide where environment creation goes: core or separate extension?; issue; @luabud @minsa110 @brettcannon

Environments

• 🏃‍♀️ Fix venv watcher tests; issue; @karrtikr
• python.selectInterpreter not working on code-server; issue; @karrtikr
• 🏃‍♀️ detect conda environments lacking an interpreter; issue; @karrtikr
• 🏃‍♀️ Investigate using conda run for conda environments when running python files and while installing via pip; issue; @karrtikr
• Don't inherit the environment in a dev container for conda; issue; @karrtikr
• Move the environment information to the right; issue; @karrtikr

Editing

• 🏃‍♀️🔵 Don't prompt to restart to load Pylance; issue; @kimadeline

LSP

• 🏃‍♀ Explore creating a programmatic definition of LSP; issue; @karthiknadig @dbaeumer
• 💪 Create a programmatic definition of LSP; issue; @karthiknadig

Terminal

• 🔵 Explore options for activated terminals and terminal profiles vscode-python#11039 @luabud @karrtikr

Debugging

• ${env:...} variables are not being passed via launch.json; issue; @paulacamargo25
• 🔵 Investigate automatic debug configuration based on the open workspace; issue; @paulacamargo25

Formatting

N/A

Linting

• 🏃‍♀ Create a separate Pylint extension; issue; @karthiknadig

Testing

• 🏃‍♀️ Rewrite testing discovery for unittest vscode-python#17242 @kimadeline

(github|vscode).dev

None

Documentation

N/A

Engineering

• 🏃‍♀️ Set up localization (desktop and web); issue; @paulacamargo25 @TylerLeonhardt
• 🏃‍♀️ Switch to an insiders/nightly extension in the Marketplace vscode-python#17196 @karthiknadig

Python community

• 🏃‍♀️ Look into requirements for a Linux "installer" via a relocatable binary; @brettcannon
• 🏃‍♀️ Define tiered platform support for Python; @brettcannon
• ✋ Finalize Python Launcher plug-in design (blocked on conda's feedback; discussion; @brettcannon
• 🏃‍♀️ Start work on implementing packaging.metadata; issue; @brettcannon

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Deferred items

• ✋ 🔵 Work w/ Pylance on automatic indentation vscode-python#481 @brettcannon (blocked on VS Code issue)
• ✋ Create platform-specific VSIXs (blocked on standardizing on creation of new extensions); vscode-python#17439 @paulacamargo25
• Infer environment variables for an activated conda environment vscode-python#17332 @karrtikr
• Move UI for module rename refactoring over to the core extension; @kimadeline
• Rewrite test discovery for pytest vscode-python#17242 @kimadeline
• Rewrite test execution for unittest
• Rewrite test execution for pytest