Remote Repositories: Iteration Plan for July 2021

[kieferrm]

This plan captures our work in July. 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

UX

• Show hint that commits are immediately visible on GitHub vscode-remote-repositories-github#41 @eamodio

Fundamentals

• 🔴 Ensure a smooth flow between the Remote Repositories and the GHPRI extension @eamodio @alexr00
• 🔴 🏃 Recommend the GHPRI extension when the users opens a PR @alexr00 @eamodio
• 💪 Explore command line support like code github.com/org/repo vscode-remote-repositories-github#5 @eamodio
• 🔴 💪 Consolidate pickers with the GH core extension and make pickers available for other extensions @eamodio
• 🔴 💪 Remote repositories selected from history in a remote window show as being on the remote @eamodio @aeschli