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[EP-tech] Re: Change management

Hi,
To clarify: I guess I'm mostly concerned about the "configuration stuff" which happend at the database level, and about transferring such changes from dev/staging into production or withdrawing them from production if need be.
I also experienced this same dilemma with the Drupal CMS and was shocked how late in its history some sensible practices and tools were introduced (before that admins were supposed to replicate every change through the GUI manually or to invent their own solutions).
So I'd just like to make sure that I'm not overlooking any official techniques in EPrints.
My own approach to dealing with this in other projects is basically to make everything either resident in the file system (and only there) or exportable/importable from the database. The reason is that established version control tools all work (perfectly) with file systems - the problem is "solved" there - but none understand databases (nor should they have to). 

Regards,
Jan Ploski

John Salter wrote:

I've been pondering this - and trying to do things *the right way*.
One possibility is make everything possible into a EPrints Bazaar plugin (you don't have to publish it to the world!).
Keeping that under source control, and then installing it on your dev/QA server might be an interesting route to go down!?

Cheers,
John



-----Original Message-----
From: eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk [mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Jan Ploski
Sent: 26 July 2012 15:04
To: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Subject: [EP-tech] Change management

Hi,

Is there a comprehensive list of which EPrints configuration details are
stored in the file system and which in the database? Are all
configuration settings stored in the database exportable/importable
to/from the file system?

Background: although little tweaks via GUI may seem appealing for small
installations, in general they sound like asking for trouble. Ideally,
I'd like to have all configuration changes pass through version control
and also through a staging (test) system. This is required for
documentation and also for signing off changes by the client before they
are brought into production. Is anyone else using EPrints in this
manner? Are there recommended administration practices (except for
"backup before changes" - restoring backups may be quite problematic if
the data moves forward after changes)? Or is everyone just crossing
their fingers and tweaking their production EPrints directly?

Regards,
Jan Ploski
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