Releasing the software

As soon as your application has passed system testing, you are ready to release the baseline and all objects.

If you have already created a baseline, you can release it. See Creating a baseline to create the baseline now. The following steps show you how to release a baseline.

Procedure

  1. Select the system testing baselines, right-click over the baselines, and choose Release.

    The Release Baseline dialog box displays, asking if you want to release the baseline. Answer appropriately. If you want to rename the baseline or change versions of projects, proceed to the next step. You can perform these operations together from the CLI only.

  2. You can rename the baseline or change the versions of the projects and products in the baseline, as you did when you published the baseline.
  3. In your Rational® Synergy command window (Windows) or in the shell where you started the session (UNIX), set your role to build_mgr.

    ccm set role build_mgr

  4. Change the versions of the projects and products in the baseline to a meaningful name and modify the baseline name after you create it.

    The version change is a good visual cue to reflect the purpose of the project. (See the discussion of version templates in step 2 in Publishing a baseline to developers.) Use the baseline name to reflect the purpose of a release.

    ccm baseline -modify "4.1 Turn 10" -name "4.1 General Release" -versions
    -vt "%{platform:-}%{platform:+_}%{release}_GR"

  5. Release the baseline.

    ccm baseline -release_baseline "4.1 General Release"


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