Heads Up 7 Up - Migration to Drupal 7

Log in to add this to your schedule
You have a legacy Drupal website and are unsure if you should upgrade to Drupal 7. There are some amazing new features in Drupal 7 and you want to get your hands on them. New modules are coming out for it every day. How do you identify if your current Drupal website can or should be migrated to Drupal 7? This presentation will take you though the questions you should be asking as well as show you some of the tools and tricks of the trade to migrate your Drupal 6 site into Drupal 7. After migrating over 180 websites in a massive multi-site setup we have a good understanding on this process and have some words of wisdom to share with you.

Speakers

Time slot: 
Wednesday 2:15pm-3:15pm
Room: 
Four Kitchens Room MHB 1A
Track: 
Site building
Experience level: 
Intermediate
Questions answered by this session: 
Should I upgrade to Drupal 7
How much work / time is involved in the upgrade process and what tools are available to me to make the upgrade process easier
What about my contributed and custom modules
What are some of the gotchas or pain points of the upgrade process
What are the benefits to upgrading my website
Presentation slides: 
hu7up.pdf

Comments

Would love to see that migrate script even in raw form. Can u post to github?

Submitted by stovak on Wed, 2012-03-21 15:25

I have some clean up to do and some documentation to write on it but I should be able to get to it soon and will post it here plus tweet it out once its done.

Submitted by sherakama on Thu, 2012-03-22 10:26

FINAL SLIDES

I have posted our final slides to this node as well as linked them up on our website. Please download and enjoy!

Submitted by sherakama on Thu, 2012-03-22 10:35

Migrate script with site archive would be fantastic.

Submitted by david.mccandless on Mon, 2012-03-26 09:32

Here it is: https://bitbucket.org/sherakama/hu7u_demo/overview

Submitted by sherakama on Mon, 2012-03-26 09:58
Colorado mountains