Define process to update dev server

[flannick]

Are we going to do this manually? If so, can close

[flannick]

Re: automation

Amazon isn't bad that way -- there's a single click that performs the final step of the deployment. What we don't have, however, is a system that will run all the tests as part of each deployment. Also useful is a way to build the war files with a single button click. Another nice capability is to create a WAR/db package suitable for deployment to a VM. How far we want to go down the road to automated deployment is an open question, but we should almost certainly go further than we've gone so far

[benralexander]

I think it should be possible to acceptable to update a dev server 'by hand', and without the necessity of a lot of process. That said, we also definitely do need to have a process (at least for QA and prod) that can pull from Github, run the test suite, and deploy the server when the tests pass (or email the responsible developer if they don't). And where else would we develop a process like this other than the dev server? So I'd like to get such a process in place on the dev server, and then migrate it to QA and prod. I know that Jacob Asiedu was doing something along these lines on his Amazon server -- I'll ask him about it and report back.