Remote: Iteration Plan for August 2021

[kieferrm]

This plan captures our work in August. 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

Remote Core

• Enable port forwarding to another host vscode#131399 @alexdima

Remote-SSH

• 🏃 Investigate reports on commit mismatch on client-server handshake vscode-remote-release#5303 @roblourens

Remote-Container

• 🏃 Explore simplifying dev container definition with a concept of 'container features' vscode-remote-release#5442 @chrmarti @Chuxel
• Dev Container CLI
  • 🏃 Mac OS: offer to add the CLI to the system path vscode-remote-release#5443 @chrmarti, @stuartleeks
  • 🏃 Support to run dev container image build in a CI build vscode-remote-release#5415 @stuartleeks
  • 🏃 Add devcontainer run command vscode-remote-release#5416 @stuartleeks
  • 🔴 Integrate the Dev Container CLI with the VS Code CLI, e.g. code --open-in-devcontainer .
  • 💪 🔴 Add support for repository containers (add clone-in-volume as a command, Add --volume option to open folder in a volume
• Adopt port forwarding to another host vscode-remote-release#3450 @alexr00

Remote-WSL

• None.

Remote Samples

• None.

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Deferred

• Provide an option for a pre-configured range of ports that the server can use vscode-remote-release#1386 @roblourens

[rhlobo]

• Integrate the Dev Container CLI with the VS Code CLI, e.g. code --open-in-devcontainer .

missing issue reference: #2900