Remote Iteration Plan for January 2021

[kieferrm]

This plan captures our work in late December and January. 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

• Ports view polish Ports View Polish #4021 @alexr00
• Support additional ports attributes (name, ignored) Support to define additional attributes for ports #4046 @alexr00
• Improved update of machine scoped settings, e.g. the python path Update remote settings when a setting from an extension that is running remotely is changed #1801 @sandy081
• Add support for the "--install-extension" argument to the Remote CLI Remote WSL cli: support installing extensions #2589 @aeschli

Remote-SSH

• None

Remote-Container

• Support SSH connection with password entry Support SSH connection with password entry #4154 @chrmarti

Remote-WSL

• Explore a 'WSL stub' extension that guides users to install the WSL extension Explore a 'WSL stub' extension that guides users to install the WSL extension #4255 @aeschli @bamurtaugh

Remote Samples

• Switch to using dynamic port forwarding in the samples Use dynamic port forwarding for the remote samples #3933 @bamurtaugh @Chuxel

[AlbertoPdRF]

Hey! 👋

First of all, sorry if this is not the right place to ask, but I figured it was better to leave just one comment here instead of various across issues. Are there any plans to fix #267 and #589 soon? I can seem to get things working with the workarounds mentioned on the issues (at least on Windows, I haven't been able to try on Linux yet), but it would be nice to have a definitive fix for this.

Thanks in advance! 🙂