Packaging & Deployment

I am the web developer for a new site that is coming up but there are also numerous other drupals sites I will be in charge of. The current setup for the other drupal sites is that they use Perforce (version system) to keep track of all changes done to the files of module and themes. Then they use a versioning module to keep track of all the content changes done on the site.

The first DrupalCon to be held outside the U.S. and Europe will take place in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on December 6-8. I’m excited to be part of the Content Team and the track chair of the large-scale Drupal track for this important event.

It’s the first time this topic has been included in its own track at a DrupalCon. I wrote a blog post with the track description, and an invitation for anyone who is interested to present a session: http://devsu.com/labs/have-experience-large-drupal-projects-submit-session

I will be attending spending a lot of time traveling to Drupal events in September and October, and I am hoping to run CMI initiative code sprints at all of them! There will be other initiative owners at the US events as well, so I would not be surprised to see coding going on around those topics as well. Our main focus here will be around the file-based config system and enhancements to the entity system. For those who are not local to these events, you can join #drupal-cmi on IRC to participate virtually.

I have found that although my colleagues all have ingenious techniques for deploying features and configuration, it is often hard to understand one another because our procedures are known only to ourselves.

I have taken what are, in my experience, the best elements of the procedures and proposed standards I have been exposed to, and compiled them into a structured, standardize, step-by-step series of workflows, and packaged them as http://dcycleproject.org

What I am hoping from this approach:

(1) allowing newbies to dev-stage-prod and non-technical types to get started quickly

Hi, I was just thinking about how it would be if I need to add a new functionality to my site that includes uninstalling a module.
I don't want to do it by database because I need to have all my configurations in code (and in svn).

What would you recommend?

Thanks,

Matias.

Hello,

Just finished a module whose main purpose is to maintain a map of existing Drupal UI form elements responsible for setting or listing something that could be exported to a feature related to its particular features components. It then displays a widget in that place for selecting to which feature this component is intended to belong.

Mainly functional for selecting which variables you want to export to a feature if you don't know which strongarm component that was you changed in the form you just submitted. At this time it works only with Features, but i see possibilities of other uses and the API is capable of that. Selecting whatever in the Drupal UI for other modules.

Your feedback wanted.
Matej

Hello,

I'm just wondering how I can get some content pages packed for my installation profile.
There are like 10 pages I want to release with the profile itself - I guess I do have to have them in an installtion and export them and then somehow import them.

Which module(s) should I use for that?
Any experiences?

Bye, Transmitter