Discussion about staging URLs in relation to upcoming licence changes

We had a brief chat on Twitter about how staging URLs would be distinguished from production URLs with regards to the upcoming licence changes.

Just kicking off the discussion with how I work, which will probably differ from how others work so please do chip in.

A general overview of my process is that I develop locally, push to staging, then push to production. The URLs for each step tend to follow this pattern:

Local > clientname.test (using Laravel Valet)
Staging > clientname.steveperrycreative.com (sometimes | rarely staging.clientdomain.com)
Production > livedomain.com

Ross Wintle mentioned a good example of how Delicious Brains (DB Migrate) allow you to add a domain into your account which is used for staging URLs, which works well. However, it was noted that this may involve quite a bit of work to implement.

Start by reading the eight-comment issue thread, then review the linked Twitter discussion and ACF pricing announcement. The issue names no files or tests; done would require an agreed approach for distinguishing staging URLs from production URLs under the licence changes, followed by a clearly scoped implementation plan.