[support] Why SubTheme?

[John Saward]

> just making a backup of the DB
> and old code should be enough--if something goes wrong, the site can
> be restored in about 60 seconds

I'm always amazed, humbled and shamed when people give these sort of figures as their own personal accomplishment metrics. After 5 years doing only Drupal professionally, and having been in I.T. for 18 years, including time as a Unix System Administrator for a couple of Universities, I STILL can't accomplish in 60 seconds much more that the thought "Hmmm something has gone wrong here". 

Why am I so stupid? Everybody else can restore a whole site in 60 seconds . :(

 ;-)


On 14/03/2011, at 11:47 AM, Fred Jones wrote:

>> These days, theme's are viewed much like contributed modules which code
>> you usually do not alter but rather override in other places. Personally,
>> I think themes are quite different from modules and that there's a good
>> chance that future ameliorations of a theme produce unexpected results on
>> your website but, nevertheless, this seems to be the current mainstream
>> thinking nowadays.
> 
> Yes, that's exactly what I feel. I was always nervous that I will make
> a subtheme and then in 2 months we will upgrade and then my client
> will call me on the phone frantic that I "broke" page X. He won't know
> that it's due to a CSS change in the new version of the theme.
> 
> Has anyone else experienced this? Or is it basically considered safe
> to use a subtheme and rely on the main theme author not to do
> something stupid?
> 
> Yes of course one should do upgrades on a test site etc. but everyone
> knows that for a simple module upgrade, just making a backup of the DB
> and old code should be enough--if something goes wrong, the site can
> be restored in about 60 seconds. I would *tend* to think the same for
> themes...
> 
> F
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