Remote: Iteration Plan for February 2020

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This plan captures our work on the Remote development extensions in February. We follow the same iteration cycle as VS Code. Although we plan for a whole iteration, we 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

Remote - Core

• Monitor adoption of the new extensionKind property https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-internalbacklog/issues/932 by extensions @sandy081 @egamma

Remote - SSH

• Make password/passphrase UX more reliable on Windows Fix password prompt strangeness in local server mode #2338 @roblourens
• Enable local server support by default in nightly Enable local server mode by default in SSH #2339 @roblourens
• Move remote Windows support out of preview Windows Server Support #25 @roblourens
• Explore remote macOS support Please support macOS SSH host #24 @roblourens

Remote - Containers

• Separate the Docker dependency from the Remote extension Separate the Docker dependency from the Remote extension #2380 @chrmarti
• Explore support to attach to Kubernetes Explore support to attach to Kubernetes #2381 @chrmarti
• Add support for a initializeCommand to devcontainer.json Docker Feature: preCreateCommand just like postCreateCommand #1045 @chrmarti
• Make image building more flexible (buildArgs, target) Support Docker buildArgs #150 @chrmarti

Remote - WSL

• Using Docker in WSL2 blog post @fiveisprime

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Deferred Items

• Explore using the git installed on Windows remote-wsl: allow some way to use Windows git for git repo #1844 @aeschli
• Polish Remote Explorer Header Remote Explorer: when there is only one view, split view should not be present vscode#86037 @alexr00 @misolori
• Open repository in Container, offer to create a devContainer.json when it doesn't exist already Repository Container: Offer to create devcontainer.json when it does not exist #1570 @egamma