[consulting] Upgrading to 5.0

[Michael Haggerty]

I maintain a large number of Drupal sites for clients and many of them would
like to move to to 5.0 after it is released. I am working on strategies here
for how to handle mass migrations - anyone else doing the same?

For my part, I have done the following to get ready for upgrades:

- put together an application log that covers the basics of each site:
- identified which modules are installed
- identified which themes are installed
- identified which custom modules are installed that need to be upgraded
- identifies and the version of Drupal from which we are migrating
- set up a development environment to test each upgrade prior to putting it
into production

My plan is to wait at least 60 days after the stable release to see what
kinds of issues arise from the upgrade.

Would appreciate any thoughts or comments.

Michael Haggerty
Managing Partner
Trellon, LLC