Hi Paul, Here are some links I ferreted out when setting up Subversion (SVN) for my development process.
http://f6design.com/journal/2009/12/23/subversion-for-web-development-part-1 / http://www.theartofjoomla.com/home/9-developer/13-setting-up-joomla-sites-wi th-svn.html http://search.cpan.org/~jpeacock/SVN-Notify-Mirror-0.038/lib/SVN/Notify/Mirr or/SSH.pm http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/02/07/using-svn-for-web-development/ http://gup.sonhuynh.net/2010/01/24/how-to-use-subversion-post-commit-hook-to -automatically-update-your-web-site/ http://blog.circlesixdesign.com/2007/04/10/beginning-svn-journey/ http://www.svnforum.org/ I have a local dev server and then setup a remote test server that has the same environment as the production site. I'm not using SCM on all the files in Joomla, only the ones that I'm working on. This does require a little more tracking effort on my part and I would like to version the entire installation but every time I've attempted to "Add" and entire Joomla install SVN would throw errors. I played around some with Bazaar and Mercurial but after spending days wading through tons of info and doing as much testing as I could I had to get at least some versioning system running for my projects and I settled on Subversion (SVN) as it's been the easiest to grok. I use TortoiseSVN which is a GUI for the SVN executable. I'm hosting my repositories for free at https://projectlocker.com/ There are limitations for the free account (5 users, 500MB storage all repositories) and with three projects under SVN I'm approaching the size limits. Their for fee services are very affordable and they also host Git repositories as well. Cheers! Herb Herbert M. Tucker Principal Covenant Technical Services, Inc. P: 732-497-0326 C: 848-218-9172 F: 732-497-0326 E: [email protected] W: www.covenanttek.com ____________________________________________________________________________ __________________________ Message: 7 Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:14:06 -0400 From: Paul Bouzakis <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: [joomla] Team Development Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed What are some best practices building a Joomla site with a team. I am currently joining a company where they currently are editing code on the live servers. This is not a good situation, and I have heard of some disaster stories in the company where people were overwriting their work, and by mistake deleting/moving files. I would love to get a development environment setup including incorporating SVN. I am used to developing custom php web applications, where all configuration and code are in files. With Joomla, some configuration (usually extensions) are in the DB. I have some ideas, but they require the developer to run scripts. Some of the people tweaking the code are really just front end designers, they need to go in and update the css, and an image, etc. What is the best way to manage a team of designers and developers to develop, build and deploy a Joomla site. I really can not find any good resources online. Cheers, Paul ______________________________________________ joomla mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/joomla End of joomla Digest, Vol 45, Issue 2 ************************************* _______________________________________________ New York PHP SIG: Joomla! Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/joomla NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
