Uploading local database changes to your dev server

Obi-Wan: "I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced."

Clearly, Obi-Wan was talking about the problem the Drupal community has had with development and keeping local copies to the database uploading along with code change. At our latest meeting we discussed this issue.

In searching for how others resolve this issue I found this recently released module, autopilot.

http://drupal.org/project/autopilot
AutoPilot
Utility · Modules
acstewart - August 20, 2007 - 23:44

AutoPilot is a build and change management platform for Drupal.

Since the dawn of software, change has been the enemy. Change in software requires planning, time, causes instability, and generally drives budgets up.

AutoPilot is a deployment platform for Drupal, designed specifically to take the work out of day-to-day build management for the Drupal CMS. AutoPilot makes its possible to single-click deploy a Drupal site from a development server to QA, and from QA to your live environment, and much, much more.

Development for this project sponsored by WorkHabit.

We'll have to experiment with it and see how well it works!