Drupal 7 allows to easily build and maintain distributions, i.e. repeatable website templates; you can benefit from this in all cases, whether you aim at large-scale deployments or even at maintaining a single website.
We will show how to package core and contributed modules in a distribution by using a Makefile and a profile and keeping them up-to-date during the whole development cycle.
Intended audience
All developers who wish to benefit from a clean development workflow allowing collaboration, code reuse and safe updates. The distributions workflow can be applied to single sites too, with similar benefits.
Questions answered by this session
How do I design my Features properly?
How can I create a Drupal distribution?
How does the distributions approach allow a cleaner workflow in general?
How can I have a safe upgrade path for my sites?
How can I easily maintain a Drupal distribution?
