AML Extension: Iteration Plan for October 2022

[tbombach]

Schedule

• Sep 26th - Sep 30th: Tech debt/iteration planning
• Oct 3rd - Oct 19th: Development/feature work
• Oct 19th - Oct 21st: Endgame/bug fixes
• Oct 24th - Oct 28th: Tech debt/iteration planning

Plan Items

Goals

• Complete internal testing for interactive session on AMLComputes and fix critical bugs for private preview
• Polish and raise quality bar for remote connection and getting started experiences

Legend

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

vscode.dev Web Connection Experience (Overview: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-azureml/issues/190)

• Placeholder: Fix critical bugs discovered during private preview #1743 @sevillal
• Can't use Azure ML features when remotely connected to a compute #1655 @sevillal
• Improve error message shown when Tundra is not available on compute instance #1763 @sevillal
• Detect Tundra service has timeout and restart the service #1766 @sevillal
• Custom error message if initial connection fails to create websockets #1769 @sevillal
• Automatically install Azure ML Extension on remote for web experience #1755 @sevillal

Desktop Web Connection Experience

• 🏃 Refactor Desktop clickout to use Tundra's websocket-tcp bridge #1742 @sevillal

Interactive Jobs for AMLComputes (Overview: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-azureml/issues/189)

• Support for multi-node interactive jobs #1744 @shsuman
• https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-azureml/issues/306 @shsuman
• [Interactive Jobs]Fix distributed jobs on multiple nodes #1757 @shsuman
• Set "python.defaultInterpreterPath" when connecting to an interactive job #1762 @shsuman
• Handle 502 Bad Gateway in Remote Connection #1726 @shsuman
• Add runUuid in interactive jobs telemetry #1770 @shsuman

Extension/Studio Visual Parity

• Implement Data Archive functionality #1740 @shsuman
• View Dataset properties fails #1640 @tbombach
• Remove Data Container and Version Delete from the extension  #1739 @shsuman
• Support uri_file and uri_folder and mltable data types #1668 @sevillal

Q&R Getting Started

• Problem signing into Azure ML using VSCode with latest version #1745
• 🏃 Avoid prompting for Azure sign-in during activation and rely on log-in UI in tree view #1606 @tbombach
• [Design Discussion] Default workspace service activation on-demand vs at extension activation (& sessionsChanged) #1555 @sevillal

Q&R Documentation

• Update online documentation #1680 @tbombach
• 🏃 Remove notes about using v1.0 of the CLI from documentation. #1677 @tbombach

Q&R Workflow

• Make a pass to clean up error messages, spurious notifications and modal prompting #1697 @tbombach

Customer issues

• 🏃 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-azureml/issues/282 @tbombach
• https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-azureml/issues/206
• Rabobank cannot list job runs #1748 @sevillal

Build/Compliance

• 🏃 Transition publish pipeline off VS Code organization with Data Wrangler #1696 @tbombach
• Migrate repositories to GitHub Enterprise Cloud with Enterprise Managed User #1675 @tbombach
• https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-azureml/issues/305 @tbombach

Upstream tracking issues

• Click out from Az ML Studio to VS Code doesn't select the right environment. vscode-jupyter#11260
• Investigate switching to MSAL JS library vscode-azure-account#203
• [Azure ML] Add entry points using the defined URL scheme #1663 (Sean)
• Update documentation on outbound requirements to use vscode.dev in PL #1670 (Leah)
• Azure ML Studio: Wrong tenant id set in vscode.dev URL when using personal msa account #1723 (Sean)
• Ensure default global interpreter used is the default python in terminal vscode-python#19818
• Show a Python 3.6 deprecation prompt when a user explicitly attempts to run using a 3.6 interpreter vscode-python#19988
• [Azure ML Tundra]Tundra's ws-tcp sends a sequence of empty messages when TCP socket is closed #1751
• [Azure ML Tundra] Fix Tundra service unexpected timeout #1767
• [Azure ML] Disable 'VS Code for Web' link on Studio when Tundra is not available or CI in on Private Link #1768
• [Azure ML] Change Studio to redirect to vscode.dev (stable) instead of insiders.vscode.dev #1779
• [Azure ML]: Ensure Studio sends the wsid with /providers/Microsoft.MachineLearningServices/ #1780

DRI-lite Schedule

• Mon, Oct 3rd - Thomas
• Mon, Oct 10th - Shantnu
• Mon, Oct 17th - Sergio
• Mon, Oct 24th - Thomas