VersionPress goes open source

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Post by borekb » Wed, Apr 06, 2016, 2:56 PM UTC

VersionPress goes open source
blog.versionpress.net

Re: VersionPress goes open source

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Post by godzillabrennus » Wed, Apr 06, 2016, 4:06 PM UTC

What is your business model now that you're not charging for the software?

Re: VersionPress goes open source

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Post by j_s » Wed, Apr 06, 2016, 4:09 PM UTC

Helpful info for me:

VersionPress is a free and open source version control plugin for WordPress built on Git.

We increase major version numbers quite rapidly, e.g., VersionPress is at 3.0 at the time of writing this, but that does not mean it is production-ready.

Re: VersionPress goes open source

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Apr 06, 2016, 4:24 PM UTC

j_s wrote: post #3

Helpful info for me: VersionPress is a free and open source version control plugin for WordPress built on Git. We increase major version numbers quite rapidly, e.g., VersionPress is at 3.0 at the time of writing this, but that does not mean it is production-ready.

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Post by kixpanganiban » Wed, Apr 06, 2016, 4:34 PM UTC

I put a client's site in a git repo once, but I never figured out how to safely and effectively git the database too. Kudos to VersionPress! I've only learned about them today but they seem to be doing a really solid job.

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Apr 06, 2016, 4:37 PM UTC

kixpanganiban wrote: post #5

I put a client's site in a git repo once, but I never figured out how to safely and effectively git the database too. Kudos to VersionPress! I've only learned about them today but they seem to be doing a really solid job.

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Post by awinter-py » Wed, Apr 06, 2016, 4:43 PM UTC

The 'merge databases' feature sounds like either a sweet victory of immutable data that makes life easier all around OR something truly horrible that never should have been born.

If these guys have solved the WP devops problem, they will be millionaires and candidates for canonization.

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Post by gumby » Wed, Apr 06, 2016, 5:08 PM UTC

kixpanganiban wrote: post #5

I put a client's site in a git repo once, but I never figured out how to safely and effectively git the database too. Kudos to VersionPress! I've only learned about them today but they seem to be doing a really solid job.

Depends how often it changes. In my case I had a db that was a small number of slowly-changing configuration records (a typical web site would probably also be similar) and a large number of log records. I just serialized it once a day and checked everything but the log records into a git repo. The log records were just saved like standard syslog records in two places. Worked fine the one time we needed to restore.

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Post by mountaineer22 » Wed, Apr 06, 2016, 5:35 PM UTC

Check out the https://roots.io project, not the same thing, but relevant to "modern" Wordpress dev practices.

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Post by rossng » Wed, Apr 06, 2016, 5:58 PM UTC

This is a problem that's bugged me for a long time - it's good to see people working on it. Deploying and managing most traditional CMSes is a nightmare, IMO.

MODX has had something similar for a while with Gitify[1] for the site structure and VersionX[2] for content, but I haven't had much of a chance to use them.

[1] https://github.com/modmore/Gitify [2] https://modx.com/extras/package/versionx