539151 - Configuration management, using profiles and DB upgrade schema

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(support.mozilla.org :: Knowledge Base Software, task)

Description

[Marc Laporte]

We need to discuss and decide how we'll maintain configuration / database / code changes between tiki-trunk.mozilla.com and the staging and production site.

We'll make a bunch of changes like https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=539148 but they will be wiped when we start using the real data.

Here are new (and great!) features:
http://dev.tikiwiki.org/Database+Schema+Upgrade
http://profiles.tikiwiki.org/  (for configurations and some data)

Related:
http://dev.tikiwiki.org/wish2965

Comment 1

[Marc Laporte]

Similar to database patches above, profiles can be used for SUMO to make sure a configuration change on Staging is not forgotten on production. But beyond SUMO, the same thing for the various sites Fennec, Thunderbird, etc. It makes it easy to deploy a config change everywhere.

This is a step towards the Open Source Support profile. (We can make a SUMO profile which is an adaption of the Software Project profile.)
http://profiles.tikiwiki.org/SUMO_pre-profile
http://profiles.tikiwiki.org/Support_Mozilla_com

Comment 2

[Marc Laporte]

Here is the upgrade profile and related instructions:
http://profiles.tikiwiki.org/Support_Mozilla_com_upgrade_to_Tiki_5