A Workflow for Release Management

By the time you've installed and set up your first Drupal site, you're probably quite aware of the mystical connection between Drupal and Lego*. Create the content types, build the views, pull in additional functionality through the thousands of contributed modules, and BAM! Site done! Just like building an awesome spaceport with Lego.

Except! Maintaining and updating a live site presents a new set of challenges compared to building a site before launch.

This session will introduce the basics of release management for Drupal-powered sites. Learn about the development / staging / production workflow and how to integrate it into a version control system. Hear about the current weaknesses in Drupal as they relate to release management and how to work around them. We'll finish off with showing the full cycle of deployment from an idea, to development, to testing, and to production.

* for the lazy