Production checklist

TODO for prod production deployment

• Get the current flow into CircleCI for deployment (dev and prod)
  • Deploying a theme update should trigger the deployment flow
• Get a prod DB stood up that we can use, with backups
• Figure out how to link from a challenge to the individual forum
  • Can be handled by the forums processor
  • We need to make sure that tasks don't create a forum
• Figure out all the necessary TC website links to the forums so they point to the new forum site
• Figure out SSO from the TC site down to the forums
  • I have opened a discussion in Slack about this
• Fix up the theme and get confirmation that it looks OK from someone at Topcoder
• Ensure that we have a prod SMTP setup for forum notifications to get sent from

Things we need to discuss

• Are we handling the roles correctly in a way that makes sense? I see this getting a little out of hand due to creating a new role for every challenge.
  • Did we talk to Vanilla about a $ version that has groups available?

Testing

I'll want to test with a challenge or two in prod before we go to a wider release, just to make sure everything works as expected. I'm sure I'll have a challenge or two for a couple weeks we can use.