Posted by sreynen on May 2, 2013 at 5:13pm
We've had some discussions about trying a different sort of format for the Central Denver meetup, with shorter presentations focused on solving specific problems. This would involve people posting their problems in advance and other people volunteering to demo solutions at the meetup.
So let's try it! Post your problems here, and if you're willing to do a quick demo on how to solve a problem posted here, volunteer in a reply. If/when we get enough to make a meetup out of it, we'll make that the meetup.
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Problem: I've upgraded a
Problem:
I've upgraded a suite of modules and perhaps even core, and I need to ensure that nothing was broken and I also would like this process to be autmoated.
A couple things come to mind.
A couple things come to mind. Simpletest to handle as many things in code as possible. Selenium can be (IDE or webserver) can be used to test user interactions. Browserstack can be set to automate screenshots in key areas. If you have d.o. patches still pending on d.o. as RBTC, you could run a post install script to ensure they are re-applied (very handy for modules like secure pages, which are stuck in perpetual RBTC).
There are probably others, but that's a first crack at this one :)
Back up. Back up. Back up. Then repeat.
There are all sorts of frameworks, tools, and best practices for testing, building, deploying, & backing your website safely (+1 @rickmanelius for getting that list started). Each one plays a different role in your Q.A. process... start adding automation to your QA process (ideally you'd have a one-step build you can run at any time). Then refine the process and add the tests you feel your application/website needs. For the very paranoid: back up everything in triplicate and practice resurrecting your site from said backups.
The topics you suggested are
The topics you suggested are broad and multi-faceted. It seems like you would need presentations/demos that cover each of them. Seems like you would need to touch on:
Each of these are sufficiently deep topics to question the effectiveness of solving them in a short presentation. I'd say it's all but impossible to cover them all at once.
If the group is interested in one on environment automation I could demonstrate the basics of a reusable vagrant/chef approach for drupal lamp (dlamp? lampd? drupalamp?) environments. It would illustrate using chef's deployment resource to manage drupal. This could probably be a foundation topic for the other ones.
I think you missed one
I think "damp" about covers it!
Thank yew!
I agree you couldn't really
I agree you couldn't really solve much in a single session - the way I was thinking would be give broad overviews so those that are at "I'm not sure how to go about this upgrade" go to "ok, I know what type of tool or approach might help for my project"
Also, I would be very
Also, I would be very interested in a more in depth look at the environment automation & reusable vagrant/chef
Thanks for the tips!
I had posted the question given the context that this thread was supposed to represent problems that we could potentially talk about at a meetup. I don't urgently need help with that problem, it was meant to inspire someone to give a presentation.
Not that I don't appreciate the answers given, I just think the point of the OP was to encourage people to give presentations on problems that others are throwing out there.
That said, would either of you like to give a presentation on your solutions to the problem I had posted?
Cool - this is a topic I'm
Cool - this is a topic I'm really interested in. I would like to give a presentation to introduce the different tools/issues if people are interested. These are the things I think would be relevant and I could do some overview slides for:
I'm not an "expert", but am comfortable with these things on a conceptual level and have some practical experience with each. I would be comfortable co-presenting also if others are interested in preparing slides/demoing.
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