[consulting] preparing clients for Drupal 5 obsolesence

[Sam Cohen]

> Sam Cohen wrote:
> > I've still got a couple of 4.7 sites that are serving nonprofit
> > clients very well and they are very happy with them.  I'd like it if
> > they paid for an upgrade, but I can't imagine requiring them to do so.
>
> By the way, I was ignorant of these issues when I set up my first two
> clients with Drupal. I now do their security updates for free, and if
> they haven't upgraded of their own accord by the time Drupal 5 is EOL, I
> will upgrade them to D6 for free. I consider the unpaid time the cost of
> my Drupal education. I offer my new clients a monthly maintenance plan
> to cover the cost of security updates. If they refuse it, and lack
> in-house expertise to apply the updates themselves, they do so fully
> educated about the risks they are taking.
>
> -Matt


You sure make upgrading to Drupal 6 seem really easy.  In my experience, f a
site has a lot of customization or uses modules that haven't been ported --
or modules that simply work differently (views1 to views2) upgrading can
take days -- even weeks.  In many cases, doing it for free isn't even an
option.

Sam
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