Staging Drupal

Abstract:
Building complex web applications, especially in a team environment, requires more than just code and geeks; it also requires strategy. Drupal shops need to understand how to manage the platform in multiple environments and in all phases of the application lifecycle.

Agenda:

• Drupal development strategy
• Multiple environments
  • sandboxes, staging area, production
• Managing Drupal with Subversion
  • Repositories, branches, tags, externals, template files, etc
  • Two tier checkout
    • Core repository and project repository
    • Multisite considerations
• Automate administrative tasks through code
  • views, content types, settings, nodes, taxonomy
• Features
• Install profiles
• Drupal Tools
  • Permissions API
  • Deploy
  • Services
  • Drush
• What's Missing

Goals:
This session will familiarize attendees with the tools and processes used to manage development, QA, and production of Drupal projects.

Slides and Docs: 

Presentation Slides

Slides and Docs: 

Example code for a generic site module, demonstrating use of hook_update_N() functions