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Consider publishing pre-releases

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Since the PSGallery supports pre-releases now, this would be a good opportunity to test the waters before the next version goes out into the wild. We had the upgrade to the new SDK, which was a big change and hopefully it has not broken anything and also new parameters like e.g. -Fix and EnableExit that people could play with and give feedback.
Given that PSSA gets integrated into the PowerShellEditorServices and via that lands in the PowerShell extension of VSCode (which has 2 million installs) we should be aware that new problem of PSSA could have a bigger impact. I had a chat with the guys here and VSCode does not have native support for pre-release but they could offer a pre-release VSIX package at least, which could add to the userbase of pre-release testers.
Let me know your thoughts and what kind of (pre)release frequency is preferred?

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Start by reviewing the proposed PSGallery pre-release workflow and its relationship to PowerShellEditorServices and the PowerShell VSCode extension. Define the supported pre-release and release frequency, along with how feedback from pre-release testers would be collected and acted on.

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Assessment

Tech stack
powershell, vscode
Domain
release
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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