deployment

I've uploaded the slides for my presentation on staging & deployment from this weekend.

http://heyrocker.com/drupal/content/drupalcamp-vancouver-staging-deploym...

Thanks so much to all the dcv08 organizers, and to everyone who came to my talk. It was really great and I look forward to further discussions!

See some of you at DrupalCamp Seattle!

I have been working on a framework that attempts to address some of the issues of deploying code and data in Drupal. It is outlined here:

http://heyrocker.com/drupal/content/deployment-and-change-management-fra...

I'd love to hear people's thoughts on this.

Is anyone interesting in having a brainstorming session on deployment and change/build management at Drupalcon Boston? This could either be an officially submitted proposal with an open agenda, or an unofficial get together in a side room at the conference center. It seems like a lot of us are struggling with enterprise-level deployment issues, and getting a bunch of smart and interested people in a room talking about their own solutions and brainstorming new ones would be useful for everyone. We all have our own ways of handling it and I'd love to hear other people's ideas.

http://www.bryght.com/blog/roland-tanglao/10-minutes-on-drupal-deploymen... has an excerpt from a really great discussion that ensued at DrupalCampLA during Firebright's dissertation on how hard it really is to properly upgrade the featureset on a Drupal site that's live and active.

Hello all,
Sorry for cross-posting; but I think people working on different aspects of Drupal may have interest in this idea.

I've submitted a SoC 2007 Drupal proposal on automating the whole process of creating a complete Drupal site with a LAMP stack in a self-contained virtual machine image. A formatted PDF version is here:
http://www.abeharry.info/SoC2007_DrupalAST_FullProposal.pdf
Here is the abstract:

The Drupal automated staging toolkit is a proposed set of code libraries, file schemas and parsers, and code generators, for