Foundation.mozilla.org: Improve deployment process

[alanmoo]

What problem(s) are we trying to solve?

• Making changes to the network site is error-prone.
  
  
  
  • There's a circular dependency in which the front end being built is dependent on the API being spun up, but that doesn't happen till the front end gets built.
  
  
  • Deploying changes is error prone- sometimes rebuilds fail silently on content updates
  
  
  • Production/Master branch setup is unlike our other projects, and it's helpful to have the same dev/deploy process as much as possible.
  
  

We need to solve these, keeping in mind that Mezzanine templating...isn't great or easy

(original etherpad)

[alanmoo]

Before closing this we're going to need to turn off the "rebuild on model change" script @cadecairos

[cadecairos]

@alanmoo is this something we want now? I can disable it via config, and I can rip out the signals altogether.

[gvn]

Should be safe to turn off now that all the CMS driven components are pulling via XHR on prod.

[cadecairos]

filed #798 - I think I might leave that for next week, and just disable the build via config for now

[cadecairos]

The model signals will now bail early, as I've unset the config vars they rely on.

[alanmoo]

Closing epic, final issue has a PR open.