Recommending baselines

Recommended baselines are the set of baselines that project team members use to rebase their development streams. When developers join the project, their development work areas are initialized with the project recommended baselines. If your project uses feature-specific development streams, development work areas are initialized with the parent stream recommended baselines.

As work on your project progresses and the quality and stability of the components improve, the project integrator changes the baseline promotion level attribute to reflect important milestones. The promotion level attribute typically indicates a level of testing.

When baselines pass the level of testing required to be considered stable, the project integrator makes them the recommended set of baselines. Developers then rebase their development streams to the recommended baselines. You can set a policy that requires developers to rebase their development streams to the set of recommended baselines before they deliver work. This policy helps to ensure that developers update their work areas whenever a baseline passes an acceptable level of testing.