[Techtalk] Drupal 6 vs. 7 vs. 8

[Carla Schroder]

Thanks, that's helpful. My first priority is always "sanity." :)

Carla


On Sat, 19 Jan 2013 19:21:22 -0800
Michelle Murrain <michelle at murrain.net> wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
> > --
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > Carla Schroder
> > ace Linux nerd
> > buy my books! Book of Audacity,
> > Linux Networking Cookbook,
> > Linux Cookbook
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > _______________________________________________
> > Techtalk mailing list
> > Techtalk at linuxchix.org
> > http://mailman.linuxchix.org/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
> >
> 
> 
> 



-- 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Carla Schroder
ace Linux nerd
buy my books! Book of Audacity,
Linux Networking Cookbook,
Linux Cookbook
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~