deployment change-management

Hey folks,

I've worked on a number of Drupal sites where we needed to keep multiple sites in synch, and Drupal has been a challenge to keep that way because so many options are changed through the UI - this tends to show its weakness when we want to keep the settings across all sites (don't even mention content). Moving content types and views is easy with the import/export tools, but blocks are another story. The visibility rules, Roles, and input formats all require your time and attention to detail - time you could be spending working on other features.

At the last DUG I was talking with several people about a deployment framework I've been working on, and demo'ing some of what it can do. I have just released an alpha version of this framework on drupal.org.

http://drupal.org/project/deploy

I'll be at the co-work tomorrow, if anyone wants to come by and talk about it. I know a couple people asked about getting involved, which would be great. I am especially in need of people willing to do some testing, there are so many configurations out there it's really important to get as many different scenarios involved as possible.

Thanks!