Release Note Writer
microsoft/vscode-docs/.github/skills/release-note-writer
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Guidelines for writing and reviewing Insiders and Stable release notes for Visual Studio Code. This also includes instructions for updating release notes for recovery releases.
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Skill details
Versionv1.0.0
AuthorMicrosoft
Categorycoding
Skill IDmicrosoft/vscode-docs/.github/skills/release-note-writer
Files5 files
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