[TYPO3-dev] Development/Integration/Staging/Production Practice for TYPO3

[Susanne Moog]

Hey Ben,

Am 29.03.2010 10:10, schrieb ben van 't ende:
> Heyla,
> 
> Today the question was raised to me how companies deal with advanced Staging.
> That means separate Development/Integration/Staging/Production installations in
> a structured process for website development that maximizes productivity and
> reduces bugs that reach the user. Ofcourse TYPO3 features workspaces, but that
> does not deal with new functionality/extensions in a TYPO3 project. Some former
> client I once had used a custom script that would skip dynamic tables when
> updating the whole installation if I remember correctly. There where many
> disadvantages to that procedure as well and it could hardly be called bullet
> proof. I did not encounter such a situation where a client needed that
> functionality after that. I can imagine however that in a number of situations
> this could be interesting.
> 
> Are there already any experiences around of having to deal with such a
> situation? In what way would this be do-able in a TYPO3 environment?

we are using our own custom solution available here:
http://typo3.org/extensions/repository/view/neustastaging/current/ in at
least three projects at the moment. It works pretty well but covers only
the editors side, so if you have a new extension you still will have to
install it by hand on the production environment after it was tested on Dev.

Cheers,

Susanne