DevShop

As we head into DrupalCon week I've got something big to announce. With the blessing of the Aegir core maintainers, I am taking the 4.x branch of Provision I have been working on and I am separating it from the Aegir Project.

Provision 4 will still power Aegir. We are working on a patch to Hostmaster that will allow us to run a different command other than Drush, allowing Provision4 to become the primary back-end to Aegir 4. This means it will also be able to power the current generation DevShop.

In just a few hours, the first serious critical security update for Drupal since "Drupalgeddon" will be released.

To make this update easier for DevShop users, we've pushed out a new release with 2 features that allow you to update your sites without ever leaving your web browser: "Update, Commit & Push" and "Tag a Release".

"Commit & Push"

The "Update Drupal" button has been available in DevShop for some time, but now you can automatically commit the results by checking a box.

Last week I was honored to be selected to speak at the 4th Cornell DrupalCamp at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

Aaron Froehlich joined me to speak on how his team uses DevShop at the Cornell ILR School.

Aaron's been using DevShop since the 0.x days to fire up copies of his website for different git branches, making it easy to review his team's work.

UPDATE: Slides and Video of the session are now available.

Every time there is a big DrupalCamp or Con we submit sessions thinking we will talk about our open source hosting and testing platform, DevShop. The specific theme for each talk usually aligns with whatever the latest features are, or is just a general (boring) overview of the features.

After four years of hard work, we're headed to DrupalCon this year with reason to celebrate: The release of DevShop 1.0.0.  

Why, you ask, did it take four years to reach 1.0?

Semantics

One year ago, we decided to reset DevShop back to zero with Semantic Versioning.

In a few hours, I'll be heading to Princeton University for my fourth DrupalCamp New Jersey.

This camp holds a special place in my heart because it was the first place that I spoke about OpenDevShop in public.

DrupalCamp NJ brought me out of my lonely freelancer shell and into the larger Drupal community. 

Aegir Summit & DevOps Camp at NYCcamp 2015

This Thursday starts NYCcamp, which is gearing up to be a huge event.

This year they've expanded even more beyond Drupal to all free & open source technologies.

Well before "DevOps" was a thing, and long before DevShop existed, was "CI". Continuous Integration is a critical part of successful software development.  As a web CMS, Drupal has lagged a bit behind in joining up with this world of CI.