[Techtalk] Drupal 6 vs. 7 vs. 8

[Michelle Murrain]

Hey Carla,

Drupal 8 won't be ready by the end of June. Drupal 6 is definitely running
out of gas, and by early 2014, will be deprecated. So 7 is your answer,
especially if you are doing it this calendar year. If you can wait until
mid-late 2014, you might be able to do it, but there are a lot of
contributed modules that might not be caught up yet.

I'm exclusively building on Drupal 7, and experimenting with 8, but I don't
expect to develop a real production site for clients in 8 until the middle
2014 at the earliest. I expect to do a lot of migrations from 6-7 this year.

In general, skipping a version makes it tougher to upgrade, and given the
space between releases, and the rapidity of change in web design and UX
sensibilities, upgrading every version has made the most sense to me.

Peace,
Michelle


On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 6:08 PM, Carla Schroder <carla at bratgrrl.com> wrote:

> O Great Drupal Deities,
>
> My main job is in-house Drupal jockey for a family of 8 sites with a
> common codebase, but each site has a different editorial focus. We're
> currently hosted on Acquia on Drupal 6. I believe Acquia does not
> support Drupal 8 yet, so we're looking at migrating to Drupal 7.
>
> I don't want to get into specifics for various reasons, but here are
> some of the issues we're dealing with:
>
> - our Drupal 6 setup is overly-customized, to the point of duplicating
>   built-in Drupal functionality
> - if Drupal 6 isn't officially end-of-life, it seems it's running out
>   of gas anyway, and winding down to mainly security and bugfixes
> - It seems that 8 is still far from a release date-- but are there
>   reasons to consider skipping 7?
> - We're probably wanting to have this done by the end of June.
>
> Thoughts? Linkies? Words of wisdom?
>
> Carla
>
>
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