Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Development framework with access restriction?

[Michael Orlitzky <michael@orlitzky.com>]

On 09/26/11 16:01, Grant wrote:
> I'd like to hire a freelancer to work on my website.  I don't want to
> provide access to all of my code, but instead only the particular file
> or files being worked on.  Does anyone know of a development framework
> that would help facilitate that sort of thing?  Would no shell access
> along with restricted SFTP access be the simplest, safest, most
> effective way to go?

Why not just send him the stuff he should be working on? He can run his
own Apache/PHP/whatever on his development machine. When he's done, he
can send you a tarball of the site files and maybe a SQL dump if you're
using a database.

That's the easiest one-off solution. If you're looking for something
more permanent, another idea is to have a "public" git repo somewhere
while the developers all work on their own workstations. SQL changes can
be made via numbered migrations, e.g.,

  001-create_users_table.sql
  002-create_nodes_table.sql
  003-disregard_that_drop_users_table.sql

and devs can push everything to the git repo, as long as it's a
fast-forward (so they can't trash the repo history).

Once you're ready to move something live, an admin logs in to the
production box, does a `git pull`, and then runs the migrations or makefile.