Remote: Iteration Plan for March 2024

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This plan captures our Remote work in March 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

General

• Download alternative server on unsupported Linux servers vscode#206790 @deepak1556 @roblourens @aeschli @chrmarti

Dev Container Specification / CLI

• 💪 Implement PR templates / issue forms devcontainers.github.io#244, devcontainers.github.io/pull/354 @bamurtaugh

Dev Containers Extension

• Offer to launch docker when it's not running vscode-remote-release#9687 @chrmarti

SSH Extension

• Finish roll-out of exec server implementation vscode-remote-release#9077 @connor4312

Remote Repositories

• Improvements to the GitHub Repositories extension query @joyceerhl

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Deferred

• None.