Online service: Checklist of actions (eg security updates) for distributed teams

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• Backups (create, restore, more often backups, remote access from cli)
• Composer commands
• Git commands
• Drush commands

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• CI/CD: Do not deploy code if a fatal error occurs
• PHP testing (pipelines etc)
• UI testing (automated, eg e2e testing with Cypress for A11y, Design, usage etc)
• UAT (by humans with scenarios, eg RA from Acquia)

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• Uptime monitoring (external, eg uptimerobot, New Relic)
• Support tickets templates, required emails etc
• SMS and email alerts for PHP fatal errors

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• If a fatal PHP error occurs the customer should follow "these steps" (eg call us on the phone and then contact the hosting provider)
• High emergency steps (how to rollback from the UI)

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Related pages:

• https://github.com/theodorosploumis/notes/blob/master/drupal/security-updates.md
• https://github.com/theodorosploumis/notes/blob/master/drupal/script-get-prod-config.md
• https://github.com/theodorosploumis/notes/blob/master/drupal/deployment-workflow.md
• https://github.com/theodorosploumis/notes/blob/master/drupal/testing/README.md
• https://github.com/theodorosploumis/notes/blob/master/drupal/contract.md

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A shared single page where each part (Developer, PM, Site owner) should check the related task from a Security Updates checklist. Any part can see the progress of a Security update and there is a common action log for reference.

• Calendar and schedule
• Action log
• Predefined lists
• Password protected (user accounts, groups)
• Permissions per action (who can check a list item)
• Reports
• Email alerts
• Real time alerts on browser (push notifications)
• SMS alerts
• API
• Export data
• White label software
• Teams and roles