[consulting] New project drupal workflow

[Christian Pearce]

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Troy Arnold <troy at zenux.net> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 11:30:24PM +0100, George wrote:
> > I'm testing the idea of having a local repos of drupal and the essential
> > module (and some not so essential modules) and checking out when i start
> > a new drupal project, and installing. of course this has the negative
> > that modules and drupal slowly fall out of date, but i find it
> > incredibly quick just to checkout, and start with the all the modules,
> > and take away what i don't want.
>
> It sounds to me like a pretty terrible idea to start with something that is
> already out of date.  If you want a rapid start, why not just run multiple
> sites out of one Drupal install?
>
> Also the drush module is pretty darn spiffy for quick module installs.


Do you have an example of this?

>
>
> > i'm thinking about combining this with an install profile to
> > automatiically enable the core essential modules cck / views etc to
> > remove an extra layer of module enabling!
>
> > do any of you do anything similar? or do you have a different system?
>
> I have a Drupal project that periodically needs to get cloned into a new
> instance.  I ended up writing a Perl script to handle the tedious parts of
> cloning the database, copying over and resources, erasing the un-needed
> content and writing a new settings.php.  That's probably a raunchy hack,
> but it was easier (for me) than learning the install profile system.  It
> does require that you understand Drupal's database schema very well.


> It's a slightly different question than what you're asking, but for
> maintaining Drupal sites with a minimum of hassle I use a method largely
> based on David Grant's writeup:
> <http://www.davidgrant.ca/maintaining_vendor_sources_with_subversion>
>


I pretty much do the same thing, but end up doing a bunch of configuration
by hand.  I too was hoping to learn the install profile to create a baseline
of modules I want all the time.


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Christian
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