Currently the variables that are available at release creation and deployment creation time are very limited. To make more variables available requires a rewrite of the orchestration and evaluation completed at those times.
This suggestion is to see if time spent making these variables available is a wanted feature instead of requiring the workarounds that are required.
This would allow:
- Custom variables used in release number templates
- Variables used for feeds or packages will no longer need an un-scoped dummy variable
- Channel scoped variables would be available due to channels being known for releases

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