We do some thing similar, except we have developers developing in branches, and then it's merged into the trunk working copy on QA server, and if it passes testing, then it's committed to the trunk and deployed to production.
We don't have any notion of releases, instead we deploy different features for different clients daily. Russ > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Kroll [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 2:41 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: Development Environment Setup > > I feel your pain and have recently worked through many of the problems > that you are currently struggling with. This is the solution that we > found works for us and is in no way "best practice" or the "right way", > but hey, it works for us with 20 developers all working on the same set > of code! > > We decided to have each developer run a local copy of CF under apache as > well as installing TortoiseSVN to interact with SVN (Subversion). Our > IT guys helped me put together an installer package that had the apache > conf files as well as all the necessary installers. We wrote a few CF > files that used the admin API to create all the necessary datasources > etc. This enables us to bring a computer from start to configured in > about an hour. > > We have two "environments", QA and production that we deploy to. When > we are ready to QA a release, we create a branch from the trunk and have > our QA server switch to that branch for testing. If there are any > problems, we update the trunk and merge those changes into the release > branch. Once this branch is ready for deployment onto our live servers > we simply have the live servers switch to the new release branch. > > Currently we are not using many automated processes to accomplish this > (outside of SVN) but I'm looking into ANT and CruiseControl as I've > heard really great things about both for automated deployments. > > In regards to your question about the logistical nightmare of keeping > all developers in sync...well SVN handles all of it from a code > perspective. When a developer attempts to commit changes to the > repository, they are notified that their local copy is out of date and > they must sync with the server prior to any commits. On the data side, > we have data environments (development, qa, live) and all developers > have their CF datasources pointed to our dev DB server. > > HTH > > Rich > > -----Original Message----- > From: Konopka, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 2:19 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: Development Environment Setup > > You could create individual user shares on a development web server. > > Each developer would check out code to his/her user share to code with. > > ___________________________________ > David Konopka > Wharton Computing and Information Technology > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Neil Middleton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 9:20 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Development Environment Setup > > Hi guys, > > Question on how best to setup our development environment. I know it's > been asked before, I would like your ideas on our specific setup: > > Currently we maintain several applications under many websites, on a > single development server (CFMX7 and SQL2000). Developers work direct > on the shared development server via VSS (do some work, save it, check > it in to see if it works...very time consuming). Releases are then done > by the tech support guys, who get sent a list of things to push to test > (which is currently a manual task). Developers have no access to SQL > Admin or CF Admin. > > As you can guess, this isn't the best, and I personally would like to > see us using a better source control system (Subversion?). I would also > the like the source control and release process to be a lot more > transparent in the overall process. > > I have seen mentions of people having devs running their own instances > of CF/SQL, but how the hell do you keep these up to date without > creating a logistical nightmare (i.e making sure every developer is in > sync with both code and external requirements such as IIS setup?) > > Cheers in advance.. > > -- > Neil Middleton > > Visit feed-squirrel.com > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:249348 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
