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

[Olssy]

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 at 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.
>
> E
>
>
> 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
> pgp 0x6B4D6475
> https://www.torproject.org/
> +1-781-948-1982
> ________________________________________________________________________
> Tor Website Team coordination mailing-list
>
> To unsubscribe or change other options, please visit:
> https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/www-team
>
>
> ________________________________________________________________________
> Tor Website Team coordination mailing-list
>
> To unsubscribe or change other options, please visit:
> https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/www-team
>
>
>
> ________________________________________________________________________
> Tor Website Team coordination mailing-list
>
> To unsubscribe or change other options, please visit:
> https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/www-team
>