[webteam] minor progress

[Peter Saint-Andre]

Bart van Bragt wrote:
> On Jan 16, 2008, at 12:31 AM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>> OK, I backed up the database and created a new directory for all the 
>> test/staging sites:
> 
> 
>  From what I understand setting up a proper staging area for Drupal is a 
> pain :\ For example check out:
> 
> http://drupal.org/node/181128
> 
> The main problem is that Drupal is rather fond of changing it's datase, 
> for instance when working with CCK. This makes is rather difficult to 
> synchronise the development, staging and production machines. There are 
> several solutions and hacks out there, it depends largely on our 
> requirements what would be the best suited solution for jabber.org These 
> solutions range from keeping a textfile with the relevant changes to XML 
> based build and deployment tools. Alas I don't have experience with any 
> of them at this time.

Thanks for the link. That is indeed complex. I don't know if we will 
really use the stage.jabber.org site in the future -- maybe we will just 
be careful about www.jabber.org (but test large features, like the user 
authentication stuff, at stage to be sure they work before launching them).

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
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