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Behind The Scenes: SVN & Development

29 Sep
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by Adii Rockstar in Development

We’ve received many questions on our development and how we manage to maintain and update 40+ themes. In addition to reading about our development cycle, the below screencast should give you a good idea of how we roll around here…

Behind The Scenes: SVN & Development from WooThemes on Vimeo.

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19 Responses to “Behind The Scenes: SVN & Development”

  1. Prashant
    29 September 2009 at 8:25 am #

    Very interesting! thx for sharing this. Not used beanstalk as yet. I am just a bit concerned that you are displaying the urls of the main site [svn, etc]. Not advisable from security perspective. my 2 cents.

    • Adii Rockstar
      29 September 2009 at 9:23 am #

      Beanstalk is great.

      And whilst this may not be the greatest thing in terms of security, we haven’t shared any authentication details, so I guess we’ll be okay! :)

  2. Nikole Gipps
    29 September 2009 at 11:05 am #

    What program are you editing files in?

    • Adii Rockstar
      29 September 2009 at 12:01 pm #

      I use Coda on Mac OSX.

      • Nikole Gipps
        29 September 2009 at 7:24 pm #

        Interesting. I will try that out. I have been using TextWrangler on my mac which I like but it is very basic. Although – your code seems to have a lot of spacing in it sometimes and I’m not sure if that is your program or your methods.

        • JohnONolan
          30 September 2009 at 4:01 pm #

          It’s a bit of both I think, Coda inserts a lot of spaces in CSS files as a part of its autocomplete function. (something that bugs the hell out of me)

          But I think you’re talking about extra line-breaks, which as far as I know is done manually by the WooTeam to improve readability for users/customers when editing the code :)

  3. @johnranaudo
    29 September 2009 at 3:26 pm #

    Is there a way to push the updates to the clients installation of the Woo Themes code or do they have to download the updates and manually update it themselves?

    • Magnus Jepson
      29 September 2009 at 4:52 pm #

      All user update their themes themselves, by getting the new zip version on our site. I don’t believe there is a way to push out the source updates to a users web server, but in the future we hope to have an auto update function, so it’s easier for users to one-click-upgrade their themes.

      • JohnONolan
        30 September 2009 at 4:03 pm #

        There would be if the Woo Framework was hosted externally I guess – but that would be server-load hell! :D

      • Taylor
        8 October 2009 at 3:05 pm #

        That would be badass….

  4. Dave
    30 September 2009 at 4:16 am #

    You should have a look at Warehouse: http://warehouseapp.com/

    Warehouse recently became Open Source and is a Great SVN app

    • Adii Rockstar
      30 September 2009 at 5:08 am #

      As far as I understand, Beanstalkapp is built on top of Warehouse!?

      • Dave
        30 September 2009 at 5:39 am #

        Oh right didn’t know that!
        Warehouse is self hosted so it may help keep costs down.
        But I will give Beanstalk a trial, look quite good

        • Adii Rockstar
          30 September 2009 at 6:40 am #

          I’m a little concerned with self-hosting our SVN repositories though (I may be stupidly over-cautious here), because if the website goes down, then we can’t reach SVN and can’t continue working. If hosted on two different boxes you should be fine though.

          • JohnONolan
            30 September 2009 at 4:04 pm #

            This makes a lot of sense to me – I was going to say the same

  5. JohnONolan
    30 September 2009 at 4:04 pm #

    Really awesome video guys – this is the sort of stuff I love to see: “Behind the Scenes” :D

  6. ClassiPress
    1 October 2009 at 3:24 pm #

    Thanks for sharing Adii. I also use Beanstalk (love it) but with tortoisesvn (PC only) since there wasn’t a real good gui svn client for the Mac. I didn’t know about Versions so now it’s time to make the switch. ;-)

    So what do you guys use for issue/bug tracking? I use and recommend Lighthouse which integrates nicely with Beanstalk. Gotta love hosted apps!

    http://lighthouseapp.com/

    ~Dave

    • Magnus Jepson
      1 October 2009 at 4:28 pm #

      I use tortoiseSVN as well, as I’m the only PC g33k at Woo ;)

      We use Lighthouse as well, but haven’t hooked it up to Beanstalk yet… will have to look into that :)

  7. Ariel
    4 October 2009 at 5:24 pm #

    Thanks for sharing! We use TortoiseSVN at the studio, although haven’t tried Beanstalk yet.

    Great work keeping all your updates in perfect order and documented.

    Cheers!