Forum OpenACS Development: Response to Best way to setup dev env for many developers?

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Posted by Hawke R on
We have one major project, but with many different parts or modules to it.
We have the eCommerce portion of our site.
The Content load side. The Content distribution (via xml) side.
The internal CMS.
The cobranding portion.
etc.
Many portions can be worked on independent of other parts, but it's all part of the same site.
Though we're considering completely separating the eCommerce/consumer side from the Network/CMS side, since they have disparately different needs.
The teams are very small 2-3 at a time, sometimes just individuals, who then have to have their code run through independent QA.
We've noticed so far that some of the modules/packages work very well with the subsite layout, and others do not.
So we're definitely going to have to do something along the lines of separate AOLServer/ACS installs on virtual IPs & Oracle Data instances for each developer to avoid any cross corruption, this could be an issue for HD space if nothing else, but I worry it'll be a heavy load on the system, despite how powerful it. I wish there was a cleaner way of course, without so much consumption of system resources.
Thanks,