543820 - Staging Site for Mozilla Labs out of Sync

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(mozilla.org Graveyard :: Server Operations, task)

Description

[Pascal Finette [:pfinette]]

The staging site for Mozilla Labs (http://labs-newdomain.stage.mozilla.com/) is currently out of sync (we updated the WPMU install on the main site, staging is still an old version).

This indicates a larger overall problem - the way staging is set up at the moment is, that we only have access to a few directories which are sync'ed via SVN. This makes work on the website somewhat hard as a) stuff like updates to the core of the site are not sync'ed and b) settings which are stored in the database don't get sync'ed between staging and production at all.

Comment 1

[Pascal Finette [:pfinette]]

Bump.

We can't work on the Labs website as long as we don't have a proper representation of production on staging.

Thx!

Comment 2

[Shyam Mani [:fox2mike]]

Pascal, 

Trying to understand the issue better here, what do you think we can do to make this better? IIRC, production is pulled from svn.mozilla.org/projects/labs.mozilla.com/tags/production and I'm guessing if you have something similar for stage, we can make sure it auto-updates the stage site every 15 mins or so.

Or did I miss the point entirely and this is a new site?

Comment 3

[Pascal Finette [:pfinette]]

Hi Shyam,

The problem we currently have (and which is inherit in the way we set up staging) is that the WPMU install on staging is a different version than the WPMU install on production (at least as far as I can tell). We also have a plugin installed (WP Spam Free) which is not on staging and which I thus can't delete.

I'm not sure what the right setup for this is - but it would be awesome to have a staging system which reflects/mirrors the production system.

Comment 4

[Shyam Mani [:fox2mike]]

Upgraded MU to 2.9.1.1

[root@mrapp-stage02 labs.mozilla.com-wpmu]# svn info
Path: .
URL: http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress-mu/tags/2.9.1.1

And I've put in the WP Spam Free plugin as well. 

Do let me know if you need anything else, feel free to open a bug when staging falls too far behind prod.