[support] Upgrading from 4.5.5 to 6.13

[Bill Fitzgerald]

Hello, Shai,

In the interests of protecting both you and your client from the 
surprises that will likely be lurking within either the data, the 
hosting config, or the content, I would be very clear that your initial 
bid represents an estimate, but that the actual hours for the job can 
only really be known when you start interacting with the data (aka, 
doing the work).

In some cases, we treat upgrades from older versions more like data 
migrations than upgrades. It depends on the job, and the amount of data, 
but sometimes that can be a useful context for the work.

I would also ask what the client wants to gain from the upgrade. Do they 
just want to preserve the existing functionality within an updated 
codebase, or do they want to begin to leverage some of the architectural 
  improvements that are possible with D6 (like, for example, moving from 
Image to Filefield/Imagefield/CCK)?

My .02.

Cheers,

Bill

Shai Gluskin wrote:
> Hi Gang,
> 
> I'm bidding on a site upgrade which is currently running on Drupal 
> 4.5.5. The good (actually great) news is that there are no non-core 
> modules running except for the image module. I haven't had direct access 
> to the db and the node content page isn't filterable by content type in 
> 4.5, out of the 1280 nodes, I believe that fewer than 50 are images.
> 
> I figure I'd upgrade to the last 4.5 release which was 4.5.8, then to 
> 4.6.11, then to 4.7.11, 5.19, 6.13.
> 
> The db is MySQL. There are 1280 nodes. There is one vocabulary with 
> about 130 terms. No important blocks. It's running a minimally 
> customized version of Bluemarine. But I'm throwing the theme out 
> completely, anyway.
> 
> Even though it is five upgrades, this looks like it will be simple. Am I 
> deluding myself? Are there any gotchas that I'm not seeing? Any advice, 
> especially about what I may not be thinking of, would be most appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Shai
> 
> 
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