microsoft / microsoft/PowerToys

Preview releases are annoying

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Description

### Microsoft PowerToys version

0.101.*

### Installation method

Chocolatey

### Area(s) with issue?

General

### Steps to reproduce

Since August 10th, there have been 7 preview releases, each causing notifications to be send out to all users watching releases of this package. And I'm willing to bet that 100% of those people (who only "watch" releases) are not interested in "preview" releases.

I honestly don't understand why this package started publishing "preview releases" as it just causes a lot of noise.

### ✔️ Expected Behavior

Only publish non-preview releases.

### ❌ Actual Behavior

No preview releases

### Upload Bug Report ZIP-file

_No response_

### Additional Information

Not relevant.

### Other Software

Not relevant.

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

Research direction

Start with the issue discussion and the seven preview releases since August 10, focusing on the PowerToys release stream and Chocolatey distribution. Determine where preview releases are published and how release watchers are notified; done means establishing a supported change so only non-preview releases are published and confirming the expected notification behavior.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
github
Domain
release
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Active
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
45/100

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