Review and Release Cycle

The DesignExchange app is constantly changing.
Here's how we submit, review, and deploy changes.

About production and staging

We have this app running on two sites:

• Production: thedesignexchange.herokuapp.com
  This is the actual site people use.
• Staging: thedesignexchange-staging.herokuapp.com
  This site is a sandbox that has an identical set up as production, except its data may be outdated, wrong or missing.

Deployment calendar

We operate on a weekly release cycle.

when	for everyone	for developers
Tue-Fri	Not much going on. The developers are hard at work!	You can make whatever changes you want to staging.
sometime Friday	We will send out proposed changes to everyone. It will be a GitHub pull request here, and it will also be in an email.	We will make a pull request from staging to master (this sends the email), and deploy the staging branch to the staging site.
Fri-Tue	Please look at the staging site, and if there are any issues, please bring them up by replying to to the email or the GitHub pull request.	We will re-deploy staging as necessary to fix issues brought up.
Wednesday meeting	We will all look at the staging site and review the changes together. If all looks good then we'll make the changes live on the main site!	We'll merge the pull request, and deploy master to production.