How do you manage publish-to-prod releases?
Hi ya'll! Looking for some words of wisdom / advice about how to manage publish-to-prod on the Lithium platform. I find it challenging that some configuration-y things (e.g. badge images) are in sta...
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Alteryx does have their act together, if I do say so myself 🙂 Check out our latest release blog.
We treat community as if it were a product - we run on 6-week dev cycles and iterate/improve/fix with each cycle. We typically have stage "freezes" where no further dev work is allowed as well. This helps with not adding anything unnecessary before deployment day. There may be some mini-releases we do out of cycle, but for the most part, we stay on schedule.
EDIT - CarolineS - to edit your post, you should be able to find the ability in the 3 vertical dots in the upper right corner of your post. Do you not see that?
Thanks JeffSt! I do like the idea of release cycles and having rigor around the process.
And, I swear, last night I didn't see "edit" under the three dots. Maybe I was just tired. Or maybe someone changed my permissions overnight 😛. You know, probably I was clicking on the way-upper-right three dots that apply to the whole thread, rather than the ones that apply to my post. Anyway.
While there is an additional cost towards it, Lithium also does offer the ability to have a third dev instance.
Generally speaking - Primary development especially on larger products is all done in our dev instance, and the code would then move to stage solely for testing and push to production. This allows our developers to essentially have their own playground, while allowing our core Community team to publish throughout the day without any concerns.
StanGromer - RIGHT! I remember hearing that a third instance, "dev", was an option way back when, but I had forgotten. This would be very useful for us; I'll look into the cost with my account manager!
