Hi Dave, We do not have a formal change management process yet. It is certainly on our list to try and implement though. A component of that is definitely not having staff to be strictly operational. We are also using Hudson (http://hudson-ci.org/) as a continuous integration server for automated build and deployment. It is a very powerful tool similiar to CruiseControl that goes a little farther by allowing you to run a Hudson node within your deployment environment in order to deploy locally in a pretty secure manner. You just have to be more disciplined about who can deploy things within the people that have access to Hudson itself.
Thanks, Rick -- ---------------------------------------------------------- Rick Johnson Systems Analyst Manager, Digital Library Applications and Local Programming Unit Library Information Systems University of Notre Dame Michiana Academic Library Consortium Notre Dame, IN USA 46556 http://www.library.nd.edu 574-631-1086 ------------------------------------------------------------ ________________________________________ From: Code for Libraries [code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Walker, David [dwal...@calstate.edu] Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 11:55 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] change management system Thanks to everyone who responded. The comments have been very helpful! Is anyone using RT? [1] Also, I'm curious how many academic libraries are following a formal change management process? By that, I mean: Do you maintain a strict separation between developers and operations staff (the people who put the changes into production)? And do you have something like a Change Advisory Board that reviews changes before they can be put into production? Just as background to these questions: We've been asked to come-up with a change management procedure/system for a variety of academic technology groups here that have not previously had such (at least nothing formal). But find the process that the "business" (i.e., PeopleSoft ) folks here follow to be a bit too elaborate for our purposes. They use Remedy. --Dave [1] http://bestpractical.com/rt ================== David Walker Library Web Services Manager California State University http://xerxes.calstate.edu ________________________________________ From: Code for Libraries [code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Mark A. Matienzo [m...@matienzo.org] Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 5:47 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] change management system I'm inclined to say that any sort of tracking software could be used for this - it's mostly an issue of creating sticking with policy decisions about what the various workflow states are, how things become triaged, etc. I believe if you define that up front, you could find Trac or any other tracking/issue system adaptable to what you want to do. Mark A. Matienzo Digital Archivist, Manuscripts and Archives Yale University Library
