[development] Staging content to production servers

[Chris Johnson]

Khalid B wrote:

> I have had clients ask me on this as well. The idea is to have a production
> server than no one posts content to directly, and a staging server where
> content is posted, edited, refined, ..etc. Then a button is clicked to push
> selected content from the staging to the production.

Why are people using staging sites for this, instead of the 
workflow/publish/moderation queue abilities built into Drupal?

Personally, I'm more interested in staging software changes and config changes, 
so I'm curious as to what is driving this other use.

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..chrisxj