Jupyter: Iteration Plan for January 2023

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This plan captures our work in November. 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
🔁	repeating activity from iteration to iteration
🔴	missing issue reference
🔵	more investigation required to remove uncertainty
⚫	under discussion within the team

Outputs

• On notebook restore, fallback if an ipywidget needs an active kernel connection vscode-jupyter#8635 @DonJayamanne @mjbvz
• 💪 Support ipywidget 8 vscode-jupyter#8552 @DonJayamanne

Kernels

• 🏃 Continued polish of the Kernel Picker vscode-jupyter#11904 @rebornix @DonJayamanne
• Adopt activate function for loading kernel and notebook preloads vscode-jupyter#11817 @DonJayamanne
• Wrong elapsed time reported vscode-jupyter#12399 @DonJayamanne

Debugging

• 🏃 Allow disabling "justMyCode" in Interactive Window with ipykernel debugging vscode-jupyter#11777 @roblourens
• 🏃 Investigate debugpy hangs in Jupyter debugging debugpy#1051 @roblourens
• Fix IW debugging vscode-jupyter#12407 @roblourens
• Improve presentation of the cell that is being debugged microsoft/vscode#169190 @roblourens

Interactive Window

• Cleanup the IW context menu vscode-jupyter#12392 @amunger
• 💪 Clean up Interactive Window creation/restore vscode-jupyter#10808 @amunger

Engineering

• Update localization to use l10n.t API vscode-jupyter#12508 @DonJayamanne

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Deferred

• Make it easier to distinguish between IW and notebook settings vscode-jupyter#12393 @amunger
• Resolve keyboard binding conflicts vscode-jupyter#12394 @amunger
• Introduce a "Run in IW" launch config vscode-jupyter#7683 @amunger
• Explore files synchronization for Jupyter servers vscode-jupyter#1601 @rebornix @DonJayamanne
• Improve remote jupyter server CORS warning/error message prompt vscode-jupyter#12507 @DonJayamanne
• Kernel architecture review and polish vscode-jupyter#10832 @rebornix @DonJayamanne
• Debugging/debugger architecture review and polish vscode-jupyter#11108 @roblourens
• Enable ipykernel 6 debugging in the interactive window query @roblourens