Development sprint: February 25th release

[meaghanlewis]

Overview

Release Date: February 25, 2019
Release Issue: https://github.com/github/releases/issues/394
Release Milestone: https://github.com/github/VisualStudio/milestone/25
Description:

Timeline:
Development sprint: January 14th - February 1st
Wrap up development / merge to master: February 4th - 15th
Testing week: February 18th - 22nd

FEATURES / ENHANCEMENTS

Enhancement: Adding a pull request status circle
Owner: @StanleyGoldman
Status: Done ✅
Hypothesis: Showing users a status of checks with more information from the PR list will help give them more details ahead of time

Have the following items been added or updated?

• Tests
• Metrics (no metrics to add)
• Documentation

Feature: Make # and @ mention work in comments
Owner: @StanleyGoldman
Status: Punt to next sprint 🏈
Hypothesis: # and @ mentioning users in comments will make users happier by being able to tag their fellow collaborators and bring information to their attention.

Have the following items been added or updated?

• Tests
• Metrics
• Documentation

Related PRs:

• Autocomplete for users and issues with '@' and '#' #2156
• Modernizing and Implementing Autocompletebox #2158
• Implementing Autocompletebox #2159

Enhancement: Unify clone and open functionality
Owner: @jcansdale
Status: Done ✅
Hypothesis: VS2019 has a "get to code" option that will bring up the clone dialog. From our A/B testing we learned that users don't typically change the tab initially presented to them, so providing clone and open from the same tab will provide more options for users to more easily clone and open repositories.

Have the following items been added or updated?

• Tests
• Metrics
• Documentation

Feature: Resolve comments
Owner: @jcansdale
Status: Punt to next sprint 🏈
Hypothesis: Adding functionality around resolving comments will make sure that there is parity between comments displayed in Visual Studio and dotcom. Users will only see the comments that are not resolved.

Have the following items been added or updated?

• Tests
• Metrics
• Documentation

Feature: PR Conversation View
Owner: @grokys
Status: Done ✅
Hypothesis: Improving the PR experience by displaying a conversation view will provide users with more information to complete a PR review in Visual Studio.

Have the following items been added or updated?

• Tests
• Metrics
• Documentation

Enhancement: Signal completion when opening repository using Get to Code
Owner: @jcansdale

BUGS

Bugs Resolved

Title	Link	Owner	Status
Re-clone uses old clone dialog	#2199	@jcansdale	✅
GitHub extension stopped reporting progress when cloning from the Start Page	#2196	@jcansdale	✅

[meaghanlewis]

Note: Updated date of release to February 25th