How automated is too automated when it comes to deployment?

Question

I have ci, so our staging environment builds itself.
Should I have a script that not only builds production but does all the branching for it as well?
When you have one code base on two different urls with skinning, should they be required to build at once?

Answer 1

The only way to be too automated is if you are spending more time fighting with building or fixing automation scripts than you would just doing the job manually. As long as your automation scripts take less time and produce fewer errors than doing the job manually, then automation is great.

Scripts to build and branch for production are a great idea!