• Making sure that there are no unaddressed issues
• In case last-minute component updates are needed
• Rebasing Git for Windows' patches
• Opening a PR to kick off a PR build
• Kicking off the "Git Artifacts" Azure Pipeline
• Verifying that the resulting installer works
• Kicking off the Azure Release Pipeline that publishes the release
• Pushing directly to main to close the PR and set the stage for the Azure Pipeline
• How to release a quick-fix release