Jeff Miccolis and Alex Barth on Open Atrium and the Features Module
Jeff Miccolis and Alex Barth talk about the latest work on their Open Atrium distribution, and the Features module.
Development Seed has been on the cutting edge of dealing with making deployment of module configurations easier from different development environments, and there was a lot of buzz about the Features module and exportable configurations at DrupalCon Paris. Alex and Jeff led a popular Birds of a Feather session on the topic, and Alex talks a bit about what was covered.
A lot has happened since DrupalCon DC where there were a number of deployment discussions about different solutions ranging from Context & Spaces modules, Patterns module and the Deploy module. This write-up "Deployment and migration: hot at DrupalCon DC" gives the most comprehensive overview of the different options that were discussed at the time.
As Young Hahn concluded, the missing gap that needed filling was pushing for modules to make their configurations exportable, which is what has been happening a lot more especially with the help of the Chaos tool suite (aka CTools). So keep an eye out for more modules providing exportable configurations, more features, and eventually more products and easier ways of making Drupal distributions.