Drupalcon Boston brainstorming session?

Posted by gdd on January 23, 2008 at 3:07pm

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.

This is obviously becoming a bigger and bigger issue for the community as Drupal gets adopted at more and more large organizations and I think there's an enormous amount of interest out there in solutions.

Comments

Heyrocker,

Posted by av98 on March 30, 2008 at 10:35pm

Heyrocker,

Count me in. I designed and implemented the change management / deployment system for what's poised to be the largest-scale Drupal site out there (as far as I know). Some members of our team will be at DC08, and would love to meet up with other people tackling this issue.

Our team has developed over 50 custom modules for our site -- managing the development (involving multiple developers, themers, etc), testing (of modules who'd love to clash with each other), and deployment (over many, many high performance web servers) of code is quite a task.

Look forward to seeing you there!

Argh

Posted by gdd on January 29, 2008 at 3:07pm

Unfortunately I have recently learned I will be unable to attend, which is now doubly frustrating. However this is still a subject I think is of vital importance to Drupal, and I would love to hear more about how you're doing things. Maybe you could write a little bit about it here? Or feel free to contact me through my contact form.

I'll be there and go to a deployment management session for sure

Posted by mlncn on January 29, 2008 at 11:22pm

... and I will be ending my attempts to work out a change management and deployment and concentrating on building a mindreader to pull to extract every last piece of information from Jonathan's head! ;-)

Really sorry you won't be able to make it, heyrocker, if there's a gathering I'll try to get down all the intelligence and post to this group.

^{benjamin, Agaric Design Collective}

^{benjamin, agaric}