We are proud to announce the general availability of Rational Team Concert 2.0. Go download it and enjoy! It’s loaded with features, some of the most notable features being read permissions, significant enhancements for planning and agile scrum support, and the server going big with enterprise deployments supporting 2000+ users in a single repository!
How do we know if we are done? Well, take a look at our release plan … it’s all green as you can see in the screen shot below, grouped by milestone. The only task remaining was for me to blog about how our repository has grown over the last year.
We are heavy users of the new release planning functions; we are a big team, and having planning support is key for us to get organized and track our progress. But as you can see in the image below, although we tracked progress and had iterations with continuous integration we have to improve our story boarding to get a better burndown and velocity metric. It’s interesting to note that as our tools got better so did our estimates!
Our endgame was a bit more active than last year, but the burndown was as expected as you can see in our project dashboard. We tracked code churn and defect trends in the end game very closely.
After the dust had settled, it looks like we closed 7,127 work items, tasks, and stories in 2.0. Of those, 521 are enhancements, 4,223 defects, 2,333 tasks, and 50 stories.
In addition to the cool features, we worked hard to provide good online help and articles. Here is a quick article index to help you find and catch-up on new features and best practices. Think of this as a mini table of contents for the key Rational Team Concert 2.0 articles on Jazz.net:
Setup and Administration
- Getting started with project and process areas
- Licensing in 10 minutes
- Permissions overview
- Deployment Planning Guide
Work Items
- Getting Started with Work Items
- Tracking Work Item Changes
- Customizing work items and process (presentation, article)
- Customizing Work Item Editor Presentations
- Advanced guide to queries
Source Control
- Getting Started with Source Control
- Resolving Conflicts
- Parallel and multiple stream development (presentation, article)
- Loading content from a repository – patterns for flexible load support
- Patterns for read protecting source code
- How we backup your previous files
- Using the Source Control command line tool in builds
Planning
- Getting Started with Planning
- Progress and load bars, the importance of estimations
- Using the My Work view
- Agile@Scale: Agile Planning and Best Practices (presentation)
- Effective Planning
- Customizing Planning
Build
Connectors, Bridges, and Importers
- ClearQuest Bridge (video)
- ClearCase Importer and Bridge (video)
- Import ClearCase data with history
- Using Git with Team Concert using patches and bridging
Thanks for all the feedback we’ve received throughout the 2.0 release, as many of you have downloaded and provided great early comments. On behalf of the entire Team Concert Development Team, we thank you!
Congratulations! Looking forward to digging into the new release.
Does the new version comes with plug-in for JDeveloper? we are planning to use JDeveloper that comes with the Oracle Suite 10gR3 (10.1.3.3). Or maybe the Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 11gR1. Thank you!
In you are using the Oracle Enterprise 11gR1 is based on Eclipse 3.4 and is compatible with Team Concert. You can install Team Concert into it or vice-versa. We don’t yet have plug-ins for JDeveloper though.
Does RTC 2.0 works with the client built in RSA7.5? I have updated RSA7.5 to RSA 7.5.3 and when I am trying to connect to the project area, I am getting error for version mismatch. The messages which I got is as below:
CRJAZ1176I There is a version mismatch for the “com.ibm.team.repository.common.internal.IRepositoryRemoteService” service. The server version is “7” while the client version is “6”. Both client and server version must match. Check the overall version of the client using Help->About and ensure it is compatible with server version “1.0” and build id “I20090618-1753”.
I was going through the some forum an found that i have install the client which support the current version. Since I want to use RSA7.5 as the client, Please let me know what is the changes I need to make so that it works.
I connected my RSA 7.5.3 with the older version of RTC1.0.1 and found that it worked. My area of concern is that since I have the latest version of RSA, Why it doesn’t work with the latest version of RTC. RSA7.5.3 should support RTC2.0.
Before integrating RTC 2.0 into RSA 7.5.3, some patches have to be installed.
Please check:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2042&uid=swg21330083.
Also be aware of other RSA/RTC TechNotes:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=3488&uid=swg21391033
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=3488&uid=swg21391058
Thanks.
Hi Eric,
I followed the link send by you. Still I am getting the same problem. I tried to change the jar which contain the class but same result.
I am facing another problem. I want to build a web application(JSF Application) on RTC client but its not supporting. I am also unable to find the place to include my tomcat server as i do in RSA 7.5. My Question is Do RTC 2.0 supports web application?
thanks
RTC 2.0 doesn’t not include web tooling, for that you have to install RTC into an Eclipse shell that includes the tools you need, for example RSA or Eclipse WTP.
In the RSA7.5 we have a feature to use RSA7.5 as a RTC client. As in my earlier thread i had written that i am getting version missmatch error.
“CRJAZ1176I There is a version mismatch for the “com.ibm.team.repository.common.internal.IRepositoryRemoteService” service. The server version is “7″ while the client version is “6″. Both client and server version must match. Check the overall version of the client using Help->About and ensure it is compatible with server version “1.0″ and build id “I20090618-1753″”
When I went through the plugin i found that the version is older. Is there any update site to update RTC plugin for RSA7.5.
What would be the best approach to merge two RTC 2.0 databases? In other words: there are two distinct instances of RTC (on two distinct servers) and we would like to have only one common db in the end.
Do we have to wait for a point in time where we can baseline a version and migrate it (loosing earlier versioning) or is there a way to do it at anytime and keep the version history? Thanks.
There are two plan items in the works for merging two repositories with history, the first is at the project level and the second would allow you to move version history of the SCM content between repositories. They are both planned for 3.0.
https://jazz.net/jazz/web/projects/Rational%20Team%20Concert#action=com.ibm.team.workitem.viewWorkItem&id=87778
https://jazz.net/jazz/web/projects/Rational%20Team%20Concert#action=com.ibm.team.workitem.viewWorkItem&id=58408
hi, I want to configure e-mail settings, I cant sent invitations to join users at my Project Area or team? HELP ME Please; I was configure email settings and is impossible sent messages.
Thanx