DevCamps - Development Camps

Overview

DevCamps are a software system and conventions for making automated development and staging environments called "camps".

Focused on web applications, camps make it easy to keep development environments up to date, use version control (including in production if desired), and coordinate multiple simultaneous projects and developers.

DevCamps were developed at End Point and are in extensive use on several dozen sites. Camps adapt well to various workflows.

Documentation

• Camps: Better Development Environments - presentation slides from a presentation & demonstration Jon Jensen gave about camps at UTOSC 2008
• SpreeCamps.com DevCamps documentation - tutorial and FAQ specific to the SpreeCamps environment, but of general use as well
• Commands:
  • camp-info
  • camp-lint
  • mkcamp
  • mkcampsymlinks
  • mysql_camp
  • psql_camp
  • refresh-camp
  • re
  • rmcamp
  • with-camp
• Configuration, API, and internals:
  • Camp::Config
  • Camp::Master

Mailing lists

• User and developer discussion: camps-users
• Source code commit notifications: camps-commits

Real-time chat

We meet in IRC channel #camps on freenode (chat.freenode.net port 6667).

Source code

The source code is maintained in a Git repository, browsable via gitweb. To clone a copy of the repository:

git clone http://git.devcamps.org/camps.git

We have a GitHub mirror of the repository as well. If you have any changes to propose, please fork the repository, push your changes, and tell us about them on the mailing list.

You can see an overview report about the code on our DevCamps Ohloh project page.

Ticket tracking

New feature requests and bug reports are handled in End Point's RT in the "Camps" queue, currently only accessible by users with accounts.