Jupyter: Iteration Plan for March 2023

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This plan captures our work in March 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

• Create a Data Science built-in profile Built-in Profiles vscode#166359 @minsa110
• 💪 Explore files synchronization for Jupyter servers vscode-jupyter#1601 @rebornix @DonJayamanne

Kernels

• Adopt quick pick hover for kernel picker vscode-jupyter#13086 @DonJayamanne @TylerLeonhardt
• Mitigation for upstream kernel issues @DonJayamanne
  • Jupyter notebook slow start/connection jupyter/jupyter_client#926
  • Kernels crash/restart jupyter/notebook#6721
  • 🏃 Build zmq binaries for Apple Silicon vscode-jupyter#5206
• Conda environments without an Python interpreter are not listed in the Kernel Picker vscode-jupyter#11855 @DonJayamanne

Engineering

• 🏃 Explore adoption of platform specific extensions vscode-jupyter/#13085 @DonJayamanne @rebornix
• 💪 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

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Deferred

• 🏃 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