Re: Deployment Strategies

In our team we use and love SubVersion [1] version control system;
generally, in our solutions we have a set of environment we maintain
(development/local, staging and production) and tag each solution build
after it is published into one of them. The content is published using a
very simple content management system, based on a SQL Server 2005 database.
SubVersion alone, btw, is not so smart to merge changes occured in the
same page; so, trying to use ASP.NET 2.0 master pages and to separate
the logic of your web site into different components and controls will
help you avoid page level conflicts. For everything else (almost),
SubVersion really helped us.

[1] http://subversion.tigris.org/

HTH,

Efran Cobisi
http://www.cobisi.com

Brian Vallelunga wrote:
> I'm being put in charge of a fairly good sized web site and a small team
> of developers. I'm trying to develop a strategy for organizing the
> submission of new web site code and content and then distribution to the
> live site. I'm curious what other people have found as best practices in
> these areas.
>
> We have a staging server and are currently using Vault as our source
> code repository. Right now we're using ASP.NET 1.1, but will be moving
> to 2.0 in the near future. This brings with it another set of questions.
>
> I've had quite a bit of experience developing sites, but generally with
> only one or two people at a time. Now we're likely to have four or five
> managing the content. It's also not likely we'll have set releases, but
> instead will have to be dealing with small changes occurring frequently
> and in different parts of the page.
>
> So what do people do in this sort of situation? How do you get your
> files where they need to be without having everyone step on each other's
> toes?
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>
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