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

[Katherine Lawrence]

We do medium and large (enterprise) sites, so the number of hours versus 
the number of clients would give different percentages, but given the 
percentage on clients (not percentage hours) about 35% are upgrading 
sites (existing and new clients), 20% remediation (sites that ran into 
trouble that we took over on development work -- many which are in such 
bad shape that they not recoverable, so that they have to be restarted 
from scratch) and 45% new, from the ground-up. Sometimes we port from 
other (non-Drupal platforms, such as Vignette) to Drupal. Also, a 
significant proportion of our work is integrating legacy databases with 
the Drupal framework -- not porting, per se, but requiring many of the 
same skill sets.

Kate


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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