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

[Eric Schaefer]

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 at 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 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!
>> 
>> -- 
>> Andrew
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