[development] site provisioning/multisite management/database migration tools

[Marjorie Roswell]

Angie, Moshe, at. al.

Here are the "awesome" sed scripts that I mentioned earlier, created by
Walter Haas from dharmatech.org

Best Regards,

Margie

http://justice.dharmatech.org/websvn/listing.php?repname=adm&path=%2F&sc=0

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Mroswell <mroswell at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm on iPhone without access to copy from one email to another, but
> note that Walter at dharmatech.org has developed some awesome sed
> scripts for working with drupal and associated modules. I'll try to
> dig up URL, along with his contact info when I get home several hours
> from now.
>
> I am particularly interested in these topics, and look forward to your
> report.
>
> Best,
> Margie
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Mar 24, 2008, at 3:21 PM, "Moshe Weitzman" <weitzman at tejasa.com>
> wrote:
>
> > thats a really broad set of use cases. different tools will excel at
> > each. i'd say that hostmaster and drush are very promising for most of
> > these tasks. for moving content  around, it seems that 'deploy' is
> > most promising. as an all purpose tool, see capistrano:
> >
> http://jystewart.net/process/2007/02/using-capistrano-for-drupal-deployment/
> > .
> > ruby is only required on the source PC, not on all the target servers.
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Angela Byron <drupal-devel at webchick.net
> > > wrote:
> >> At Drupalcon, there was all kind of talk around challenges like how
> >> to
> >> manage a collection of multisite installs, how to do things like run
> >> cron or update.php on 60 gazillion sites, how to enable/disable
> >> "packages" of modules/functionality to avoid having to click through
> >> 10,000 things, how to migrate database changes from one site to
> >> another,
> >> etc.
> >>
> >> I'm planning on spending a few hours this week trying out various
> >> Drupal
> >> packaging/site provisioning systems and writing up a report
> >> comparing/contrasting them.
> >>
> >> Here are the modules I know about in this space:
> >>
> >> http://drupal.org/project/patterns: Module/system configurations that
> >> can be run at any time
> >>
> >> http://drupal.org/project/hostmaster: Bryght's multisite hosting
> >> managed
> >> site deployment framework, which includes
> >> http://drupal.org/project/hosting and
> http://drupal.org/project/provision
> >>
> >> http://drupal.org/project/autopilot: Migrate changes from dev to live
> >>
> >> http://drupal.org/project/deploy: Migrate changes from dev to live
> >>
> >> http://drupal.org/project/drush: Command-line tool containing a
> >> bunch of
> >> useful commands such as running cron, downloading modules, etc.
> >>
> >> Any others I should be taking a look at?
> >>
> >> -Angie
> >>
>
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