[Tor www-team] Help in migrating from Drupal 5 to 7

[Eric Schaefer]

Too bad that it’s staying on Drupal! I had worked out exporting all posts, comments, and events into markdown files for Jekyll (this is totally done) with a ruby script [https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/10479]. I could have a Jekyll version of the complete Tor blog up and running by Friday. But then of course there’s the issue of where to host comments, etc etc. Still seems like an easier task than a Drupal migration though.

At any rate, I’ve done a Drupal migration before, although I wouldn’t call myself an expert. But I can move the legacy data around. Someone else will need to secure the yawning security issues with D7. 

Happy to chat more either here or on tor-www on IRC.

Eric


On Aug 27, 2014, at 4:41 PM, Andrew Lewman <andrew at 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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