An article by Drupal.org entitled, Build Managing News for Development, talks about Managing News utilizing a profile install. It also uses a build system based on Drush make. Provided by managingnews.com, the install is prepared for installing downloads. Nonetheless, the drupal developers at this site feel you can construct Managing News all by yourself. You can do this to take part in developing Managing News of just to get a feel for it.
If you intend to build Managing News by yourself, you will need CVS, Drush make, Git and Drush. It is also a good idea to run the most recent Drush release – 3.x.
In order to replicate the way drupal.org constructs profiles into complete installs of Drupal, you are required to come up with a stub makefile as shown on the Drupal.org site: http://drupal.org/node/920718. By copy pasting the code available on this link, you can create a complete Managing News construct into a directory that you assign.
When using make file, your project may be retrieved in a couple of ways. One is through a straightforward download and the other is via a control system version. Should the make file state that specific projects be pulled up from the control system version, the code is exported in the normal case. This would mean it is not checked out. If you want to have Drush check out the code, you may use the – working-copy flag shown on the web page. It might be necessary to rebuild managing news, when modifications are made to files that stored or when new files are launched. In order to make this less complicated, you may use a shell script available in the profile for Managing News. This profile utilizes Drush make to retrieve parts of the profile install. Make sure you do not have customizations that you added and want to store.