Remote: Iteration Plan for January 2024

[kieferrm]

This plan captures our Remote work in January 2024. 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

Dev Container Specification / CLI

• Add support for additional build arguments vscode-remote-release#3545 @chrmarti

Dev Containers Extension

• Explore being able to open a folder in a dev container without a devcontainer.json vscode-remote-release#9175 @chrmarti

SSH Extension

• 🏃 Roll-out exec server implementation vscode-remote-release#9077 @connor4312

Remote Repositories

• Improvements to the GitHub Repositories extension query @joyceerhl

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Deferred

• None.

[sunshaoce]

If possible, hope to consider supporting RISC-V. #6687