Python: Iteration Plan for August 2023

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This plan captures our work on the Python Extension in August 2023. 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

• Finalize packaging spec; issue; @cwebster-99

Environments

• Investigate how to handle Create Environment when called with a pre-existing environment; issue; @karthiknadig
  • Implement delete and re-create for venv; issue; @karthiknadig
  • Implement delete and re-create for conda; issue; @karthiknadig
• Investigate using webworker for Python discovery; issue; @karrtikr
• Investigate potential uses of the WASI build of CPython (and maybe MicroPython); issue; @cwebster-99
• Missing packages diagnostic experimentation; issue; @karthiknadig

Editing

N/A

LSP

N/A

Terminal

• ⬛ Activate terminals using environment variables using shell integration and collection API; issue; @karrtikr

REPL

• Smarter selection of statements when sending to REPL; issue; @anthonykim1
• 🏃‍♀️ Smarter next line move on shift+enter; issue; @anthonykim1

Debugging

N/A

Formatting

N/A

Linting

• Linting on type; issue; @karthiknadig
• MyPy lint all files; issue; @karthiknadig

Testing

• 🏃‍♀️⬛ Triage open testing issues post-rewrite; issue @eleanorjboyd
• Make tests work with symlinks; issue @eleanorjboyd
• Increase test coverage for testing issue @eleanorjboyd

vscode.dev

N/A

Documentation

• 🏃 FastAPI tutorial; issue; @luabud @cwebster-99 @minsa110

API

N/A

Engineering

N/A

Python community

• Document dev process for WASI for CPython; @brettcannon
• ⬛ Enriched/strict package.metadata parsing; PR; @brettcannon

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Deferred Items

• 🏃‍♀️ Pre-release of debugger extension using debugpy 1.5.1; issue @paulacamargo25
• Support .python-version for pyenv; issue; @karrtikr
• ⬛ ‍Add Rust support to lsprotocol; issue; @karrtikr @karthiknadig
  • Familiarize with LSP and Rust plugin for lsprotocol; issue; @karrtikr
• Rollout terminal auto-activation on Insiders; issue; @cwebster-99 @karrtikr
• Implement a Python traceback problem matcher in core
• ✋ 🔴 Use conda run when debugging (waiting on the conda team to give us the go-ahead to rely on conda run so fundamentally); @paulacamargo25
• Investigate how we configure running and debugging
• ✋ Write web tests; issue; @karthiknadig
• Unify venvPath and venvFolders; issue