DevelopmentStagingProcess
What (summary)
- Immediate action when necessary
- A platform to incrementally release and user test things before they go live
Why this is important
- Not surprising users in "a bad way"
- Rarely make "mistakes"
- Getting better at communicating with our users so they know when things are about to be installed
Tasks
- We should toss up a solution that makes sense to us ... DevTools
- Then convene a meeting of all stakeholders to discuss our prototype staging process and whether there are tweaks we should introduce
Stuff
- easy script to create a branch
- make sure it doesn't conflict with an existing branch name
- branch aboutus and compost
- easy script to make a branch active on your (the developers) box
- branch serving on till
- port allocation for compost mongrels
- apache config
- easy revert for when things get hosed (tags?)
- Ability to see what has been running on the live site (date based tags would be fine, possibly a log of hashes or whatever)
- easy script to merge + close branches