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-{
-  "help": {
-    "notebooks": {
-      "id": "define every notebook under the ID in a case to be added into a test suite",
-      "path": "path to the notebooks",
-      "name": "name of the notebook in the same folder",
-      "dependencies": "notebook dependencies needed for execution, these will be uploaded into Git repo with the notebook",
-      "widget": "list widgets to be installed for notebook execution",
-      "requirements": "additional packages to pip install for the execution"
-    },
-    "uploads": "TODO: list files that are not notebooks or notebook dependencies to be updated in the Git repo",
-    "include": "Nested release.json files id: nested folder. Same logic applied"
-  },
-
-  "include": {
-    "intro": "01.getting-started",
-    "automl-intro": "00.AutoML.Getting Started",
-    "onnx": "onnx",
-    "pipeline": "pipeline",
-    "training": "training",
-    "fr": "functionalreadiness"
-  },
-
-  "channels": {
-    "master": [
-      "sample-00",
-      "tutorial-01",
-      "tutorial-02",
-      "tutorial-03"
-    ],
-    "candidate": [
-      "sample-00",     
-      "tutorial-01",
-      "tutorial-02",
-      "tutorial-03"
-    ],
-    "preview": [
-      "sample-00",
-      "tutorial-01",
-      "tutorial-02",
-      "tutorial-03"
-    ],
-    "automl-test": [
-      "tutorial-03"
-    ]
-  },
-
-  "notebooks": {
-    "sample-00": {
-      "name": "00.configuration.ipynb"
-    },
-    "tutorial-01": {
-      "path": "tutorials",
-      "name": "01.train-models.ipynb",
-      "widgets": [ "azureml.train.widgets" ],
-      "dependencies": [ "utils.py" ],
-      "conda": [ "matplotlib", "scikit-learn" ],
-      "requirements": ["azureml-train-widgets"]
-    },
-    "tutorial-02": {
-      "path": "tutorials",
-      "name": "02.deploy-models.ipynb",
-      "widgets": [],
-      "dependencies": [ "utils.py", "sklearn_mnist_model.pkl" ],
-      "conda": [ "matplotlib", "scikit-learn" ]
-    },
-    "tutorial-03": {
-      "path": "tutorials",
-      "name": "03.auto-train-models.ipynb",
-      "widgets": [ "azureml.train.widgets" ],
-      "dependencies": [  ],
-      "requirements": [ "matplotlib", "numpy", "scipy", "scikit-learn", "pandas", "azureml-train-automl", "azureml-train-widgets" ]
-    },
-    "azurenotebook-01": {
-      "path": "azurenotebooks",
-      "name": "01.run-experiment.ipynb",
-      "widgets": [],
-      "dependencies": [],
-      "requirements": []
-    },
-    "azurenotebook-02": {
-      "path": "azurenotebooks",
-      "name": "02.deploy-web-service.ipynb",
-      "widgets": [],
-      "dependencies": [],
-      "requirements": []
-    }
-  },
-  "uploads": [
-    "README.md"
-  ]
-}
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