I'm going to be doing a SoC application for a scripting tool to quickly build a Drupal virtual machine image given configuration parameters like type and config of web server, PHP, DB, Drupal config and enabled modules, db topology, and sample data and users to load. Robert Douglass spotted this as part of a performance and scalability testing environment: http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/development/2007-March/023034.html Allister On 20/03/07, Bèr Kessels <ber@webschuur.com> wrote:
Op dinsdag 20 maart 2007 10:19, schreef Gerhard Killesreiter:
One of the main problems with this as a SoC proposal is that a large majority of what needs to be done here is OS/web server/database server specific. There would probably be a lot of Drupal specific stuff, but I'm not sure exactly how much.
I am afraid all you'd really do is to try things and to document them. As I understand SoC this does not qualify as a project since no code is produced.
You could turn the documents into code, when you think of producing a Drupal installation profile, or even makefiles or vendor packages (.deb, .rpm etc) that contain all the required options, settigns and configurations. That would be a concrete result. However, maintainance of such packages or profiles is a lot of work, so you will need a plan for that too, when you choose this route. -- Drupal, Ruby on Rails and Joomla! development: webschuur.com | Drupal hosting: www.sympal.nl