[consulting] Do you get a lot of D5 to D6 porting projects?

[Bill Fitzgerald]

We have had a few of these jobs, and we have largely approached them 
from the perspective of an upgrade paired with architectural 
improvements. Views2 has been a factor, as have improvements in the 
theming layer.

Most of our clients have had such a large amount of legacy data/userbase 
that starting over from scratch wasn't an option. Depending on the size 
of the site, we have recommended reworking the theme be a separate phase 
from any architectural changes and the actual codebase upgrade.

And a final note on Views2: we have generally reworked the views by 
hand. Given the improvements between Views and Views2, we have been able 
to simplify the codebase for clients by using this process. In some 
cases, this allowed us to eliminate custom code that had been required 
in the D5 sites. Additionally, we took advantage of the ability to 
export views as a module to move the views from dev to qa to production.

So, our upgrades have been entirely codebase upgrade plus architectural 
changes plus theming improvements.

Cheers,

Bill

Dries Buytaert wrote:
> Introguing discussion. Can you put a percentage on it? Say 30% 
> upgrades, 50% new sites, 20% $abc?
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 13 Jun 2009, at 15:27, Katherine Lawrence <katherine at pingv.com> wrote:
>
>> At pingVision we are porting sites from Drupal 5 and, for some 
>> clients, even Drupal 4 to Drupal 6. Porting from 4 to 6 has its own 
>> uniquenesses due to "old" approaches that no longer are part of the 
>> way things work -- for example, now having Views in the "tool box."
>>
>> Kate
>>
>> Elvis McNeely wrote:
>>> Porting? Not many. Most start fresh because of costs...
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>>> Raja Sekharan wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> It's been more than a year since Drupal 6 was released. We're even
>>>> closing in on the Drupal 7 release. If you provide drupal services, do
>>>> you still get projects involving porting drupal 5 to drupal 6? This
>>>> includes projects where clients don't explicitly ask you to port them.
>>>>
>>>> Raj
>>>>
>>>>
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