Deployment

Eric S. Raymond (http://catb.org/~esr/), besides being a well-known open source advocate, is also well-known for this statement (http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/ar01s04.html):

"Release early. Release often. And listen to your customers."

This sentiment is not lost on the professional Plone site administrator. The sooner you can deploy a basic set of features to staging, the happier your client or boss is going to be. Deployment steps usually consist of:

• Provision servers
• Deploy to staging
• Performance testing
• Client evaluation
• Deploy to production