We recently started using JIRA for our scrum dev practice. We aim to push the work we developed each sprint to production on a biweekly cadence. Occasionally however, we will not release to production and instead wait until we have a few sprints' worth of work and then deploy. This can mean that we have as many as three sprints going to production at one time.
In order to track when these multiple sprints went out the door, we have been utilizing the Releases module in our JIRA project. This way we can map each Release/Fix Version on a certain bug/story and utilize the Release reports for tracking purposes. When we actually push to production we will be able to identify exactly what tickets were included in that release.
My question relates to what exactly happens what I hit release. We do not integrate with Bamboo, as our only integration is with Github. We are just using the Release function as a grouping mechanism. I've seen in another article that hitting "release" does not change the status of any tickets in any way. My hope is that when I hit Release, it literally just closes that release and doesn't alter or change anything else in any way.
In summary, just confirming that, in my setup, hitting Release won't have any foreseen consequences apart from marking that release as "Released". Thanks in advance for any help!
