I've been working on understanding "agile" programming practices as well as setting up a proper development/testing/release environment.
There are several good resources out there for getting these things configured for Python projects in general but nothing really specific to Django. What has worked for other Django developers/shops? How have you managed your processes? Any information on the following would be great: Revision Control: How do you layout your development repository? I'm using Subversion for my setup but would be interested in hearing what else others are using (Mercurial, Bazaar, Git, etc) Packaging: Django has an aversion to using setuptools and opts to stick with the basics in distutils. What are you using for packaging your application? What's the best way to deploy a Django project that would make it easy on the end user to install and configure? I don't really care about providing individual apps. I wish to deploy my application in it's entirety. It would be nice if this could be worked into the development process. Pylons and Turbogears seem to have a nice process setup using Paste and virtualenv that works well for the development and testing process. Do Django users have something similar? Buildbot: Do you use Buildbot or something similar for your Django development? How does that work for you? What other options are there that would work well? Versioning: How do you mark versions of your Django project? Meaning, how can you create your Django app so it has a version that you can track within the application itself as well as for setting up upgrades, etc? I can create something in __init__.py in the root of my project but how does that work with the SCM? Since trunk is always in development it would make sense to have something in there. Do you keep it is a tag or branch? I'm new to this so hopefully I'm making sense. Migrations: What do you use to track database migrations? I know of django-evolution, South and a few others but I really have no idea how these function and which is the most mature. What do you have experience with? That's probably plenty for this post. Sorry it's so long but this is difficult stuff and it's spread out across the internet. Not to mention that it's not specific to Django development. I've recently worked with a Java developer and got a chance to see his development process and was really impressed. Java seems to have more tools available that tie in nicely with each other for continuous integration. He was using Trac, Buildbot, Unit testing (JUnit) and had scripts to deploy to a new server immediately. It was pretty impressive and I would like to know if anyone has something similar setup for their Django projects. Thanks in advance for any input. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
