[consulting] preparing clients for Drupal 5 obsolesence

Fred Jones fredthejonester at gmail.com
Tue Mar 10 21:45:21 UTC 2009


> You sure make upgrading to Drupal 6 seem really easy.  In my experience, f a
> site has a lot of customization or uses modules that haven't been ported --
> or modules that simply work differently (views1 to views2) upgrading can
> take days -- even weeks.  In many cases, doing it for free isn't even an
> option.

Not to mention that some vital Drupal 6 modules (filefield for CCK for
example) are still in Alpha. Hard to even suggest an upgrade from a
stable Drupal 5 site that works perfectly to an alpha level D6 site.

Fred


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