Testing the waters… definitely not avoiding marking essays. :wink:

I’m curious about what kind of dev/test/production site workflow people have used for working on CMS sites… particularly thinking about setups friendly for use with a team of new student coders.

(I’ve taught students git/GitHub, but just for TEI markup. Not sure whether I should try sticking with GitHub for student CMS work, or whether a dashboard like Pantheon’s is worth the cost for how visually clear it makes a student team’s workflow/the potentially confusing stuff it offloads.)

For dev there are projects like http://www.drupalvm.com/ that do vagrant setups. Guessing similar out there for wordpress. You’d have to glue the CI and deployment yourself though.

@eby: Thanks! I’d played around with Vagrant before, but not Ansible. Going to give this a try.

@literature_geek: I like Vagrant Drupal Development a lot. Then, I use github (specifically, the Gitflow model https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/comparing-workflows/gitflow-workflow/) and Features. (ugh, features)