Staging Environment Plan?

[penguininja]

Hi Ryan,

Did you have a plan for a staging environment for QA and/or content staging? I'm getting to the point where I'd like folks to start reviewing parts of the site.

Thanks!
Candice

[ryanaslett]

Ive got a line out for gaiahost to set up bitch a new server (the old one is old), so once thats online, I'll start transitioning things to a qa situation.

Which brings up another point. I need to get the content migration running on a cron job, but that will wipe out any changes we've made to any of the content that we currently have that is taking advantage of all the new features of the site.

So, What I'd like to do is upgrade a sample of each piece of content (kinda like we've done with the books pages) and export those using the features uuid export tool, so we have a feature that holds the sample content in it, that we can basically delete and re-add as part of the continuous migration process. If you have any content that you have tweaked in order to style it properly, I would be interested in a database dump and from there I could export it.

If you havent had to do anything content wise, let me konw and I'll just proceed to make dummy content out of what we have.

Thanks,
R