Hi folks, Thanks to your help a few months back, I eventually got my first big Zope site up. Now the marketing droids have let it mature and come back to me with a laundry-list of tweaks and changes. 'Tis time, think I, to use versioning: keep the live site running and work on a version with all changes, let the droids assess it, and then roll it live in one chunk. Now, how do I do that, then? ---------------------- Andy Gates, Learning and Research Technology Andy.Gates@bristol.ac.uk - ICQ#74362415 http://www.ilrt.bristol.ac.uk
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Andy Gates wrote:
Thanks to your help a few months back, I eventually got my first big Zope site up. Now the marketing droids have let it mature and come back to me with a laundry-list of tweaks and changes.
'Tis time, think I, to use versioning: keep the live site running and work on a version with all changes, let the droids assess it, and then roll it live in one chunk.
Now, how do I do that, then?
Not sure if I undertand correctly your problem, but all you have to do is to create a version object in the folder you want to modify (Add Version). Then click on this object an connect to it. Then do all your modifications as you would do it without a version, and let your droids view it. When all is OK, click on your version object and click on save/discard, enter some text to describe what you've done and click save. Now you can disconnect and eventually delete your version object. hoping this will help bye, Jerome Alet
At 12:43 PM +0000 1/8/2001, Andy Gates wrote:
Hi folks, 'Tis time, think I, to use versioning: keep the live site running and work on a version with all changes, let the droids assess it, and then roll it live in one chunk.
Congrats on getting a Zope site up and running (and working with marketing at all). Version is very simple. On the top root level add a version from the drop down and give it a name. I usually give it a capital name or start it with a number so it will float to the top of the list. Then go into it (click on it) and click on the "Start working in XXXX" button. This will put you into the version and anything you do will not be seen by anyone outside of the version. You can browse your sites, see the updates etc. When you are done with the changes and everything works just go back into the version, Leave it and click on the "save/discard" tab. At this point if you save your changes they go live, if you discard they are lost. If you drop a note in there you will see it in your undo log. Some notes: - You can have more than one version going but they cannot be working on the same item - A lot of people can join a version to work in it or view it - Try to make the name of your version match what you are doing and don't let changes sit in it too long or you will forget what you did Enjoy, J
Andy, Follow the instructions as J said and you won't go far wrong, *but* be aware that if you have any external methods these are not exactly subject to the versioning. The problem happens when you restart Zope and the new code is read into both the versioned and original 'External Method'. Phil phil.harris@zope.co.uk ----- Original Message ----- From: "J. Atwood" <jatwood@bwanazulia.com> To: "Andy Gates" <Andy.Gates@bristol.ac.uk>; <zope@zope.org> Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 1:10 PM Subject: Re: [Zope] NEWBIE: Versions
At 12:43 PM +0000 1/8/2001, Andy Gates wrote:
Hi folks, 'Tis time, think I, to use versioning: keep the live site running and work on a version with all changes, let the droids assess it, and then roll it live in one chunk.
Congrats on getting a Zope site up and running (and working with marketing at all).
Version is very simple. On the top root level add a version from the drop down and give it a name. I usually give it a capital name or start it with a number so it will float to the top of the list. Then go into it (click on it) and click on the "Start working in XXXX" button. This will put you into the version and anything you do will not be seen by anyone outside of the version. You can browse your sites, see the updates etc. When you are done with the changes and everything works just go back into the version, Leave it and click on the "save/discard" tab. At this point if you save your changes they go live, if you discard they are lost. If you drop a note in there you will see it in your undo log.
Some notes: - You can have more than one version going but they cannot be working on the same item - A lot of people can join a version to work in it or view it - Try to make the name of your version match what you are doing and don't let changes sit in it too long or you will forget what you did
Enjoy, J
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