Remote: Iteration Plan for July 2023

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This plan captures our Remote work in July 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

• None.

Dev Container Specification / CLI

• Remove node-pty dependency from @devcontainers/cli vscode-remote-release#8698 @chrmarti
• Record feature dependencies in the lockfile devcontainers/cli#564 @chrmarti
• 🏃 Update dev container docs and Templates on prebuilds devcontainers/spec/issues/261, vscode-internalbacklog/issues/4456 @bamurtaugh

Dev Containers Extension

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

Remote-SSH

• 💪 🏃 Explore an exec server implementation of the SSH resolver vscode-remote-release#8747 @connor4312

WSL

• None.

Remote-Tunnel

• Enable starting tunnel service from UI vscode#184663 @connor4312
• Notify users when reaching their dev tunnels quotas vscode#187649 @connor4312
• 🏃 ✋ Support AAD auth for dev tunnels vscode-internalbacklog#4383 @connor4312
• 🏃 Support forwarding local ports using dev tunnels vscode-internalbacklog#4382 @alexr00 @connor4312

Remote Repositories

• Improvements to the GitHub Repositories extension query @joyceerhl

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Deferred

• None.