[consulting] Staying Current

[Karen Stevenson]

The key to this is your assumption that there is "lots of customization". My
goal is always to do as *little* customization as possible by finding
modules that are a good fit and have lots of flexibility, or by educating
the client on ways to bend their goals a bit to do things in a way that they
can be done without a lot of customization, or by writing patches to modules
that make them flexible enough to do what I need them to do and contributing
the patches back so that they will be maintained and supported, and by
trying to avoid using modules that are not widely-adopted (which therefore
may have upgrade and maintenance problems).

If I do those things I hope to end up with sites that have very little
customization. That doesn't eliminate upgrade problems, but it makes the
upgrade much much more manageble.

2009/3/29 Sam Cohen <sam at samcohen.com>

> I understand the logic in what you're saying, but it makes me wonder
> whether or not in the real world, big site developers who are now building
> complex sites in Drupal 6, with lots of customization, are building into
> their fees and being upfront with clients about what it's going to cost to
> upgrade that site to Drupal 7.
>
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