atom/docs/focus/2018-03-05.md

Highlights from the past week

• Atom IDE
  • Console logging started
  • IDE-Java/PHP/TypeScript updates and fixes
• GitHub Package
  • Recent commits view, read-only mode ™️ (@kuychaco, @smashwilson, @simurai) #1322
  • Recent commits view: show co-authors (@kuychaco, @simurai)
  • Commit interactions research spike: undo most recent, amend (@kuychaco) #1328
  • Port CommitView and CommitController to React. (@smashwilson) #1325
  • Begin "Remember me" within the credential dialog #1327
• Tree-sitter
  • Shifted focus to address some open-source contributions to parsers:
    • Wrote documentation about how to create parsers: http://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter
    • Fixed issues with the Bash parser
  • Fixed a bug found during constant fuzzing by the security team: https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/issues/133
• Xray
  • Decided not to run all text through HarfBuzz for performance reasons, and came up with a plan for addressing mandatory text shaping issues in the future.
  • Implemented anchors, selections, and basic selection movement.
  • Partially implemented selection rendering.
  • For more details, see the detailed update in the Xray repository.
• Engineering Improvements
  • Automated Linux package repository publishing as part of Atom release process
• Reactor Duty
  • Shipped node-keytar update, primary feature being prebuilt node modules (atom/node-keytar#67)
  • Merged community pull requests to atom/atom-select-list, atom/command-palette, and atom/tree-view

Focus for week ahead

• Atom IDE
  • Console logging completion
  • Investigate language server process hanging on deactivation in ide-typescript
  • Investigate using the new native LSP support in omnisharp-roslyn in ide-csharp
• @atom/watcher
  • Diagnose crashes and lockups on Atom launch (@smashwilson)
• GitHub Package
  • Finish "Remember me" within the credential dialog (@smashwilson) #1327
  • Write up docs/vision from meeting notes (@smashwilson)
  • Kick-start our GPG pinentry handling (@smashwilson) #846
  • Build UI for adding co-authors, much like Desktop's UI/UX - desktop.github.com/features/co-authors/
• Teletype
  • Open pull request for the avatar UX enhancements described in (atom/teletype#268)
• Tree-sitter
  • Carrying over goals from previous weeks:
    • Optimize syntax tree updates in the presence of syntax errors. This will improve performance across the board but also make Tree-sitter usable in edge cases where the wrong language is being used to parse a document.
    • Start work on allowing parsing to take place on a background thread
• Xray
  • Finish selection rendering
  • Wire up enough of the key bindings / commands system to move cursors/selections
  • Start on editing
  • For more details, see the detailed update
• Engineering Improvements
  • Finish new Atom release publishing automation