Creating a baseline to capture a milestone

Teams usually create a baseline to mark a milestone, for example, a weekly build, a beta release, or a general release.

About this task

Creating a baseline is useful if you must branch a product or if your product is at a point where no further development should be undertaken for a milestone.

You can create baselines for products that are connected to Rational Team Concert™ streams and component baselines by creating a baseline of the product configuration with checked-in child products. (The child products are connected to streams and component baselines.)

Procedure

  1. On the Products page, right-click over the product configuration you want to capture and select Create a Baseline.
  2. Enter the baseline name.

    Example: The transmission product for a car might have a sprint 2 baseline. The product name that you see in the Browse Products page is Transmission - sprint 2.

    The baseline contains a non-modifiable configuration. The configuration that you used to create the baseline remains modifiable, so your team can continue their work. In the following image, the arrow points to the modifiable configuration and the box highlights the non-modifiable baseline.

    Image showing the modifiable configuration and the non-modifiable baseline.

  3. Create a modifiable copy of the baseline by right-clicking the baseline and selecting Create a Modifiable Copy.

    Optionally, change the configuration name. You can also set dimensions and values.

    If you want to use dimension and value pairs for a configuration, you can add them now or later. Read about the behavior of dimensions in the Create a Copy dialog box, in the Dimensions hover help.

    A modifiable copy is useful if you want to add another configuration with a few differences.

    Example: You add a Deck configuration to a Longboard skateboard product, where you need the Wood product for the deck, but not the Griptape. You can create a modifiable copy of the Deck configuration, remove the Griptape product, but keep the Wood product and the other products in the Deck configuration.

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