I doubt you'll find consensus, but good luck on trying ;). I'm writing this from the perspective of a client. I don't develop modules for other people, but just for use in house. Here's what I do, but I confess to not using svn for version management of modules we don't develop. Rather we rely on release module and the drupal.org infrastructure for releases we don't care about but rather only use svn for the code that's specific to us. Some of the folks at our college are trying out using SVN to manage drupal deployment, they often complain that it's more trouble than its worth. I organize my SVN tree around deployable units, and for me that's designed and organized around the test plan. That makes it easier to understand what's been tested and ready for deployment. themes/trunk - all the themes for my site custom_module_a/trunk The version tree for that module Projects that have database changes have a db_api directory within them, so that we can tag/branch accordingly. Here's some real examples of project paths. In the example ilc refers to a large project that handles independent learning contracts at my college. projects/themes/trunk/evergreen_app projects/ilc/trunk/db_api projects/ilc/trunk/modules/myilc projects/ilc/trunk/xsl projects/ilc/1.0/db_api projects/ilc/1.0/modules/myilc et.c. I then write svn export scripts to deploy the bundles to test and production sites. This leaves me free to deploy verson_1 of module_x or version 2 of module_y, and have separate test plans/ release dates for each of these. Doing this cuts down on the work of creating a bunch of branches every time I have a separate development track going on. I tag within the themes trunk at major theme rev changes. I explain this only to suggest that best practices should really be built around your sites test and deployment strategies. For small organizations with small number of projects, this might be properly organized around the site, but as you grow, (we use drupal for our school's portal) there's a lot of need to design svn repositiories around the project rather than the site. We do use tags branches and trunks as you've indicated. This may n ot be what you're asking and if not, I apologize. ;) Dave On Sep 9, 2008, at 1:15 PM, Angela Byron wrote:
I've been doing some research for a client on best practices surrounding repository management, and wanted to take this discussion to the developer list and see if we could get some general consensus, and document it as a best practice in the handbooks.
I found a bunch of discussion on this topic: * http://drupal.org/node/118936 * http://www.workhabit.com/labs/svn-repository-structure-drupal- projects * http://ceardach.com/blog/2008/06/development-environment-drupal * http://pingv.com/blog/cyberswat/200706/project-management-drupal * http://www.svntalk.com/node/6 * http://agaricdesign.com/agarics-svn-repository-structure-for-site- maintenance-and-web-development * https://svn.bryght.com/dev/browser * http://www.advantagelabs.com/advantage_labs_svn_repository_structure * http://www.codegobbler.com/svn-repository-structure-drupal-projects
Most of these discussions are around Drupal *shops* who setup SVN to manage the development of their clients' sites, or who host their clients' Drupal sites and manage updates via SVN.
However, I'm curious what people generally use in terms of repository structure/deployment strategy *after* development is complete, and they hand the site over to the client so that they can be self-sustaining? It doesn't really seem like they need a vendor branch with various versions of Drupal and contributed modules. The repository is around just their own site.
We typically do something like this:
/branches: This is where "crazy" development happens that will break other stuff. - /drupal-6-port - /crazy-new-feature
/tags: This is where deployments go. Whenever we move a deployment to prod, we tag it first so that we can see a historical record of things that were put 'live' - /2008-09-03-description-of-deployment - /2008-09-08-description-of-deployment
/trunk: The latest development code in preparation of deployment. Should be kept stable at all times. Minor fixes can go in here, but major ones (particularly porting tasks) get a dedicated branch.
Beneath each directory above is something like this:
- /www: Drupal files, modules, etc. - /assets: Things like wireframes, TinyMCE .zip files, and anything else that shouldn't be web acessible. - /db: Database backup files
What are other people doing for this use case?
-Angie