On 11/10/06, Jason Flatt drupal@oadae.net wrote:
Does anyone else have any words of wisdom to offer?
This is a good question and one that most people skip over when they are in the phase of "these modules are all great I'm going to install 350 of them!"
Ideally I like to verify that a module is high quality and will be around for a while, but things change so you have to adjust. If you have 19 sites that are ready to upgrade to 5.x but there's one or two that have legacy modules only available for 4.7 you can then leave those sites in 4.7 and upgrade the first 19 to a new home (in the directory structure) that is the 5.x installation. Then as the modules that were holding you back get updated, or you update them, or you find replacement functionality you can merge the 4.7 sites back into the 5.x location.
That is the system I've been using for the sites that are under my direct control - it works fairly well.
Greg