[Zope] Updating content from one Zope instance to another

[David Chandek-Stark]

I want to run a development -> production system with two CMF sites and 
am looking for advice on how to do this.

Should I run two CMF sites in the same ZODB, and write a script to 
update production content from development content? This system is an 
interim solution on the road to adoption of Zope4Edu. We're under a 
rigid deadline and staff resources are thin due to other demands.

The content of the site lives in Page Templates, not portal content 
objects (I'm mainly using CMF for portal_skins) and there's no workflow. 
  This probably wasn't the best way to do it, but it seemed easier to do 
everything "by hand". The main problem is, I'm worried about developers 
frequently breaking pages due to ZPT compilation errors and would prefer 
have changes made and tested on the development system, then copied to 
production (either manually or automatically).

We are using Dreamweaver over WebDAV and can do XML validation there 
(we're standardizing on XHTML 1.0 transitional). Hopefully that will 
catch most problems, but ...

I'd appreciate any thoughts, advice, links.

-- 
David Chandek-Stark
Web Applications Developer
Duke University - Perkins Library
(919) 660-5859
dc at duke.edu