Branding activities

Branding activities for Preview releases

• Create and push a new release branch, e.g.: release/8.0-preview5.
• Create a new publishing channel for the snapped release:

  # <release version> is something like "8.0-preview5"
  # <release channel> is something like ".NET 8 Preview 5"
  darc add-default-channel --repo https://github.com/dotnet/extensions --branch release/<release version> --channel '<release channel>'

• Create a new subscription for the snapped release:

  # <release version> is something like "8.0-preview5"
  # <release channel> is something like ".NET 8 Preview 5"
  darc add-subscription --source-repo 'https://github.com/dotnet/aspnetcore' --target-repo 'https://github.com/dotnet/extensions' --target-branch 'release/<release version>' --channel '<release channel>' --update-frequency EveryDay --trigger
  darc add-subscription --source-repo 'https://github.com/dotnet/arcade' --target-repo 'https://github.com/dotnet/extensions' --target-branch 'release/<release version>' --channel '.NET Eng - Latest' --update-frequency EveryWeek --trigger

• Update merge policies for the new subscriptions with the following:

  Merge Policies:
  - Name: AllChecksSuccessful
    Properties:
      ignoreChecks:
      - WIP
      - license/cla
  

  Run the following command:

  darc update-subscription --id <subscription id>

• Create new milestone (e.g.: 8.0 Preview6)
• Update PreReleaseVersionIteration in eng/Versions.props to match the preview iteration.
• Update the milestone in .github/fabricbot.json.
• Commit the changes to the main branch.