configuration

Our aim is to convert an existing PHP based website to a Drupal site. I need a quote for the installation, template building on the basis of the actual HTML (if of any help) and module customization in order to reproduce the selected features.

The site will contain static and dynamic content in two languages, italian and english. The users of the site are only the employees of the institute, entered by the administrator.

The new layout to be implemented is that at http://isc.itti.it
The actual contents are on-line at http://www.fi.isc.cnr.it

For the Drupal sites I am working on I have a setup using three different stages:

1. R&D site - This one is for both testing contributed modules and my own development.
2. Staging - A virtual copy of the live site to make sure that the things from the R&D site will work. Also used for testing updates/upgrades to core and contributed modules before they go live.
3. Live site - Simply the live public site where all ends up after passing the two above.

This is a re-write of my drupal.org forum post at http://drupal.org/node/424154 . I figure it would be better discussed here.

How do I get configuration updates out to "pre-configured" sites? I'm currently using install profiles to "pre-configure" drupal sites, but they offer no way to "update" the profile on an existing site when a new version is released.

I recently moved to a new server and now I can't add or edit content within panels. The modal popup windows have stopped functioning.

Here's what happens:

1. I go to the content tab of a panel and click a Plus sign button to add some content to a panel.
2. The popular appears, empty for about 2 seconds.
3. It disappears.

None of the form info that's supposed to show up in there shows up in there.

What could be causing this and how do I fix it? Thanks.

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Job Description: Drupal Config Specialist/Themer

The Drupal configuration specialist will have a solid understanding of the Drupal Content Management Framework. Listening to our needs you will gather a collection of modules that provide a best fit, and you will work with our developers to provide any customizations that are required. You live online, you thrive in #drupal-support and #drupal-themes. You Blog, Skype, Twitter and Pownce your way through the day to get your points across.

Essential skills.
• General understanding of Drupal 5x core and contrib

Having worked recently on install profiles with the Filmforge project and the install_profile_wizard module, I am becoming less and less confident in their effectiveness. There are three key issues that need to be adressed IMO.

First, install profiles are currently prone to failure when you have different versions of modules. Install profiles should be able to list the version (update) number of each module currently installed, in order to be able to make the necessary updates during the install.

One of my partners, Arthur (arthurf), just posted this to one of our internal lists. Since we were talking about it (how to track configuration changes if you work on a staging site) last night, i figured i would pass it along:

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From: Allie Micka
Date: August 17, 2007 4:09:08 PM EDT
To: development at drupal
Subject: Re: [development] The right way to manage Drupal webiste development

Michel Levy-Provençal wrote:

2/ When our sites will be online, we will need to continue the
development. The only way we found to manage this is to lock param