<div dir="ltr">On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 6:06 AM, Victor Kane <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:victorkane@gmail.com">victorkane@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
The solution probably exists in terms of extracting all objectively<br>
structural information architecture decisions (panels, menus, blocks)<br>
into text-based version-controllable definitions, together with<br>
configuration elements: currently "serializable" via the Installation<br>
Profile Generators: <a href="http://drupal.org/node/180078" target="_blank">http://drupal.org/node/180078</a>.<br>
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I think a beginning would be to ensure that for Drupal 7 there existed<br>
an export/import facility for node types; and that CCK, Views, Panels<br>
and what-have-you work on improving their individual import/export.</blockquote><div><br>Alex Barth recently contact me about exactly this, having come to the exact same conclusion. He has opened an issue in deploy's issue queue:<br>
<br><a href="http://drupal.org/node/291921">http://drupal.org/node/291921</a><br><br>He himself wrote a module quite similar
to Deploy called Ports which is pretty interesting and abstracts
import/export a bit beyond what I did. Maybe he can chime in here about
what he's done because I've only taken really a cursory glance at it.
<br><br>He also pointed out to me that there are many admin/config level
problems that are currently being worked on individually which could
probably help from some communication. For instance, having well-defined import/export functionality for all "things" in Drupal would help not only deployment but install profiles, and probably a bunch of other admin/config-related issues. I'd love to see everyone discussing their problems in a more public setting, not here but perhaps in the Change Management group on g.d.o., so we can pool resources on problems when it makes sense. For all that people seem to be struggling with these issues, that group is oddly dead.<br>
</div></div><br>For more food for thought, there is a ton of interesting discussion in the comments on my initial blog post about Deploy:<br><br><a href="http://heyrocker.com/drupal/content/deployment-and-change-management-framework">http://heyrocker.com/drupal/content/deployment-and-change-management-framework</a><br>
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