Jupyter: Iteration Plan for May 2022

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This plan captures our work in May. 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

Jupyter Notebook High Priority

• 🏃 Maintain empty list of issues labeled as an important Golden Scenario issue. @greazer team

Jupyter Notebook Focus Areas

• 🏃 Round out Lazy Kernel support to enable URI and AzML connections @DonJayamanne

  • Gracefully handle connection issues with remote kernels (via lazy/proxy kernels) vscode-jupyter#9167
  • Support picking IJupyterServerUriInfo vscode-jupyter#9683
  • ⚫ Support multiple remote servers and related: vscode-jupyter#9684
  • 🏃 ⚫ Make connecting to remote URI's (in general) more intuitive vscode-jupyter#9660

• 🏃 Fill out support for remote Jupyter server URI's in a web-enabled Jupyter extension vscode-jupyter#9574 @rchiodo

  • https vscode-jupyter#9754 @rchiodo
  • kernel completions vscode-jupyter#9977 @rchiodo
  • 🏃 💪 intellisense full support vscode-jupyter#9976 @rchiodo, pylance team
  • notebook debugging vscode-jupyter#9973 @IanMatthewHuff
  • 🏃 IW debugging vscode-jupyter#9974 @DonJayamanne, @IanMatthewHuff
    • Support debugging of Interactive Window using the Jupyter debugger protocol vscode-jupyter#10037 @DonJayamanne
  • 🏃 variable window vscode-jupyter#9664 @sadasant
  • 🏃 plot viewer and dataframe viewer vscode-jupyter#9665 @sadasant
  • 🏃 interactive window vscode-jupyter#9717 @amunger, @rebornix
  • export vscode-jupyter#9996 @rebornix
  • standard ipywidgets communications vscode-jupyter#10051 @rchiodo
  • ipywidgets from CDN vscode-jupyter#9984 @rchiodo
  • 💪 File synchronization story vscode-jupyter#9975 @rchiodo

• 💪 Explore how to improve creation, autoselection and presentation of environments, see vscode-jupyter#9615, vscode-jupyter#7230, vscode-jupyter#9115, vscode-jupyter#5998, @IanMatthewHuff

  • 💪 Investigate a method to create or suggest a virtual environment with ipykernel + needed packages for a given notebook vscode-jupyter#9640 @IanMatthewHuff

• IW and Notebook scrolling issues

  • 💪 Experiment with scrollable output regions vscode-jupyter#7096 @amunger
  • IW doesn't scroll to bottom vscode#145353 @rchiodo

Engineering

• 🏃 Make use of telemetry-supported test analysis to enable a performance test vscode-jupyter#7437 @amunger
• Migrate off of the vscode.proposed.notebookDeprecated vscode-jupyter#9629 @sadasant

Deferred

• Support macOS on Apple Silicon vscode-jupyter#5206 @DonJayamanne
• Support ipywidgets without a CDN vscode-jupyter#10060 @rchiodo