Jupyter: Iteration Plan for February 2023

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

General

• Support ipywidget 8 vscode-jupyter#8552 @DonJayamanne
• Ensure the cell tag view is not visible by default @rebornix microsoft/vscode-jupyter-cell-tags#22
• Remove Jupyter error renderer and support multiple versions of ipykernel call stacks vscode-jupyter#12285 @rebornix @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

Kernels

• Continued polish of the Kernel Picker vscode-jupyter#11904 @rebornix @DonJayamanne
• ✋ Conda environments without an Python interpreter are not listed in the Kernel Picker vscode-jupyter#11855 @DonJayamanne

Debugging

• 🏃 Allow disabling "justMyCode" in Interactive Window with ipykernel debugging vscode-jupyter#11777 @roblourens
• 🏃 Investigate debugpy hangs in Jupyter debugging debugpy#1051 @roblourens
• 💪 Use setPydevdSourceMap for IW and Notebook debugging vscode-jupyter#12643 @roblourens
• 💪 Support subprocess debugging with Jupyter vscode-jupyter#9886 @roblourens

Interactive Window

• Make it easier to distinguish between IW and notebook settings vscode-jupyter#12393 @amunger
• Resolve keyboard binding conflicts vscode-jupyter#12394 @amunger
• Improve selection of kernels in the IW vscode-jupyter#11967 @amunger

Engineering

• None.

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Deferred

• Review how we start local Jupyter Servers vscode-jupyter @DonJayamanne
• Explore how to simplify the code for managing connections to local and remote Jupyter Servers vscode-jupyter @DonJayamanne
• Clean up Interactive Window creation/restore vscode-jupyter#10808 @amunger