Remote: Iteration Plan for June 2023

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This plan captures our Remote work 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.

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
⬛	a large work item, larger than one iteration

Core

• Decouple nested Resolvers vscode#184171 @connor4312

Dev Container Specification / CLI

• Update .NET dev container resources to work well with C# Dev Kit devcontainers#164 @bamurtaugh
• 🏃 Record feature dependencies in the lockfile devcontainers/cli#564 @chrmarti
• Make it easy to update to newer versions of features (codelenses, CLI command, diagnostics) vscode-remote-release#8640 @chrmarti

Dev Containers Extension

• Explore helping to install docker inside WSL vscode-remote-release#8641 @chrmarti

Remote-SSH

• None.

WSL

• Make it easier to access WSL directly from vscode.dev vscode-dev#919 @connor4312
• Support WSL over tunnels on desktop vscode#184664 @connor4312

Remote-Tunnel

• 🏃 Enable starting tunnel service from UI vscode#184663 @connor4312

Remote Repositories

• Improvements to the GitHub Repositories extension query @joyceerhl

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Deferred

• 💪 Attach to Kubernetes: Support container metadata vscode-remote-release#7880 @chrmarti