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Ricardo Costa
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May 29 '15, 1:29 p.m.
Hi,

I'll start using RTC (version 5.0.2)  in a few weeks and I'm a newbie. The RTC was customized by my client and it has a few limitations that it doesn't make my work easier.

1) There are 4 fixed streams, one for each environment (develop, quality, pre-prodution and prodution)
2) Cannot create extra streams, baselines or snapshots
3) From my workspace I can only deliver to the devolopment stream.
4) No one can deliver directly to the other streams
5) The code "flows" from the workspace to develop stream -> quality stream -> pre-prodution stream -> prodution stream


One big problem is that very often the code in develop/quality streams has features that aren't present in pre-produtcion/production. But when I have to fix code in the pre-production/production streams I have to "rollback" the entire code in develop/quality streams then apply the fix and flow the code to pre-production/production streams. In the end I have to update the develop/quality streams again to the current code.

Does this seem natural/normal? Agile?


Can you help me? Thanks

Ricardo

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Abraham Sweiss
Apr 30 '15, 4:09 p.m.
What is the tehcnical requirement that  baselines/snapshots can not be created?

Ricardo Costa
May 01 '15, 9:04 a.m.
 Hi,  it's a large organization and I don't know the reason for those decisions.  It seems logical that baselines and snapshots could be created but they can't.  And also I cannot deliver code directly to maintenance streams. This makes my work very hard.  Does this seems reasonable?  Thanks

Abraham Sweiss
Apr 30 '15, 4:29 p.m.
Not being able to create baselines/snapshots does not seem to make sence to me.  However there must be a valid reason why the company went down that path.  I would suggest discussing this with the project manager to see what can be done.  Otherwise, unless someone else on this forum has a better solution then the one you are already doing, not much more can be done.

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Geoffrey Clemm
FORUM ADMINISTRATOR / FORUM MODERATOR / JAZZ DEVELOPER (30.1k●3●34●35) May 01 '15, 3:59 p.m.
If they want you to fix bugs in pre-production or production without first delivering all changes currently in develop and quality, then you cannot do so unless they let you flow changes directly to pre-production or production.  

I agree with Abraham that a restriction on creating baselines/snapshots makes no sense, but creating baselines/snapshots will not help you with this scenario.   They either need to let you flow all changes in develop and quality along with your bug fixes to pre-production and production, or they need to let you flow changes directly to pre-production or production.
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Ricardo Costa
May 04 '15, 6:14 a.m.
Yes I agree, creating baselines/snapshots doesn't help me in this scenario but it's just one of the many features that are restricted. Flowing all the changes from dev/qua to pre/prod sometimes it's not possible because there are new features/code that needs to be tested. So it seems that the most reasonably thing to do is to let the team flow bug fixes directly to pre/production

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