Working as a team with Umbraco CMS & Umbraco Courier 2
Below is a quick summary on how to effectively work as a team with Umbraco CMS. If you have any suggestions or improvements, please leave a comment.
Create revisions with Umbraco Courier 2, store them in Git as well as your ASP .NET MVC solution containing your Umbraco CMS installation.
Developers can work in parallel as long as the Web.config file
points to the same database.
A single Revision from Umbraco Courier 2, containing content,
can then be transferred from Development environment to the
Staging environment for testing and verification.
Feature changes, that result in newly compiled .DLL files,
templates etc. should simply be copied over via XCOPY or similar
constructs, preferably performed via automation.
For example, the ~/bin, ~/Content, and ~/Views directories will
need to be manually copied over to the Staging environment from the
Development environment.
Obvious but important to mention is that Feature changes also must be committed to the Git repository.
Once changes are approved and new content has been added by
non-developers, this content can be synchronised with the
Development environment again via Umbraco Courier 2.
To publish, synchronise content changes from the Staging environment
with the Production environment using Umbraco Courier 2, or just
XCOPY the whole Staging environment to Production.
Make sure that you republish the whole site after copy so that new content changes will appear publicly.
The ASP.NET MVC solution containing the Feature changes will need to be redeployed via Project -> Publish into some folder.