If it can wait two weeks I'd love to help, I have quite a bit of experience migrating data into Drupal 7 and securing it. It might also be worth installing Aegir which is an application for managing Drupal sites and makes upgrading/migrating/cloning simpler, be it for a major upgrade between versions, creating development clones or just testing minor upgrades that come out fairly regularly. Someone will need to maintain the Drupal installation afterwards to be sure any security updates get applied quickly. I haven't used the migrate d2d module before but have a lot of experience with the import module which lets you feed a CSV file to be imported. It's pretty straightforward, extract the blog posts/comments from the D5 database in CSV format, modelize the new blog post/comment structure in D7, map the D5 fields to the D7 fields and import the CSV file. Unless there are already character encoding issues this goes very smoothly. On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Eric Schaefer <omg@eric-schaefer.com> wrote:
Andrew - if indeed this needs to stay on Drupal, can a copy of the Drupal installation/DB be generated for us to play with locally? Feel free to email directly to coordinate that.
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On Aug 27, 2014, at 4:49 PM, Sean Rafferty <seanmrafferty@me.com> wrote:
There is a Drupal module that can be used to help the migration called migrate_d2d. I have not used it, but there seems to be a good tutorial here. Going to Drupal 7 is your best at the moment. Drupal 8 looks like it will be much better than 7, but is too new at the moment.
On Aug 27, 2014, at 10:41 AM, Andrew Lewman <andrew@torproject.is> wrote:
The situation with our blog is getting pretty dire. We're running a custom written Drupal 5 designed to be secure before functional. It seems this code is heavily reliant on some old php functions which no longer exist in modern-day php5.
Rather than re-writing the code, upgrading to modern Drupal is the current best answer.
Is anyone here a drupal expert? Do you want to help us out?
We need to migrate the content and comments to modern Drupal.
We have an endless ticket of love at https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/10022#comment:15 discussing this topic.
Since consensus-based decision making isn't working, I'm deciding we're going to Drupal 7.
Helpful thoughts, advice, and pointers are welcome. Thanks!
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