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[Herb Tucker]

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: htucker at covenanttek.com
W: www.covenanttek.com
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Message: 7
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:14:06 -0400
From: Paul Bouzakis <nyphp at zooluserver.com>
To: joomla at lists.nyphp.org
Subject: [joomla] Team Development
Message-ID: <4C7FA31E.7090602 at zooluserver.com>
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  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


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