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How to prepare a servicing PR

Artak edited this page Jan 5, 2021 · 7 revisions

When preparing a fix for a patch release, there are certain steps the engineers have to follow. This document details these steps and calls out ways to simplify the PR creation.

  1. Work on a fix on a feature branch off of the release branch you're targeting your fix for. (i.e. for 5.0 that will be release/5.0).
  2. When the changes are ready, create the PR using the following template: https://aka.ms/aspnet/servicing/template
  • to simplify this step and avoid manual copy-pasting of the template, you can add the template=servicing.md query string parameter at the PR creation step as depicted here:

  • manually add the &template=servicing.md to the query and you will see this view instead:

  • fill in all the required information in the template and create the PR

  1. Apply the Servicing-consider label and set the target milestone