Remote: Iteration Plan for September 2021

[egamma]

This plan captures our work in September. 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

Remote-Container

• 🏃 Simplify dev container definition with reusable 'dev container features' vscode-remote-release#5442 @chrmarti @Chuxel
• Adopt port forwarding to another host vscode-remote-release#3450 vscode-remote-containers#150 @alexr00 @chrmarti
• Support to attach to a Podman container running under WSL vscode-remote-release#5550 @chrmarti
• Create an arm64 build of the VS Code server for Alpine vscode-remote-release#5187 @TylerLeonhardt

Remote-WSL

• Investigate whether platform specific extensions can be leveraged for WSL and constrain the installation to Windows vscode#23251 @aeschli @sandy081

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Deferred

• Provide an option for a pre-configured range of ports that the server can use vscode-remote-release#1386 @roblourens

[PederBennedsen]

Could you please prioritize #4600 etc. concerning X11 forwarding?
It is such a drawback that we can only debug text UI...