Python: Iteration Plan for June 2023

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This plan captures our work on the Python Extension in June 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

• Implement new getting started experience in the walkthrough; issue; @cwebster-99
• 🏃‍🔵 Get better understanding of pain points related to Python mono repo experience; issue; @luabud @cwebster-99
• 🏃‍ Draft artifact for our approach to packaging; @cwebster-99

Environments

N/A

Editing

N/A

LSP

N/A

Terminal

N/A

Debugging

• Create a new extension for debugpy on the Marketplace; issue; @paulacamargo25
• Fix [object Object] showing up as a notification; @paulacamargo25
• Investigate prompting users for command-line arguments; @paulacamargo25

Formatting

N/A

Linting

• Switch mypy extension to use dmypy; issue; @karthiknadig

Testing

• Writing TypeScript tests between Python code and VS Code; issue @eleanorjboyd
• 🏃‍♀️ Triage open testing issues post-rewrite; issue @eleanorjboyd

vscode.dev

N/A

Documentation

• Freshen up the Django tutorial; issue; @dawnwages

Engineering

• Onboard ESRP Release pipelines; issue; @karthiknadig
• Create a dev container for developing the Python extension; issue; @anthonykim1
• PyPI publishing using ESRP for lsprotocol; issue @karthiknadig

Python community

• Write down build process for WASI in https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Tools/wasm/README.md; @brettcannon
• Update CPython dev container definition; PR; @brettcannon
• Document dev process for WASI for CPython; @brettcannon
• ⬛ 🏃‍ Enriched/strict package.metadata parsing; PR; @brettcannon

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Deferred Items

• Support .python-version for pyenv; issue; @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