Migrating Drupal

title: Migrating Drupal
author: Lukasz Sokolowski

Upgrading Drupal - nightmare or fun? ⌘

Migrating Drupal 7 - Backdrop vs Drupal 9 ⌘

Migrating framework between big versions might be a nightmarish experience
Any migration involves a lot of efforts in many aspects, not only from the infrastructure or UX perspectives
I "survived" migrations between Drupal 5-7, yes, literally it was The Survival
Drupal 8 is a complete rewrite and new way of doing things
Do we really like it, all the changes? Is there any other good way?
Do you wanna know how Backdrop can make your life easier?

Agenda ⌘

Our Planescape but without Torment, for today's webinar

40 min of slides
- me talking about rubbish - Oops! - of course about 5G Drupal (great, great, great... ykwim!)
20 min for questions
- you Guys rock and rulezzz! (=

Migrating Drupal, webinar contents ⌘

Main goal - why are we here today?
Our goal in details
About me, just a little (pinky promise!)
My drupal experience, ups and downs (or more like Jane Austin's "Sense and Sensibility")
Migration/upgrading examples, real cases

Why, How, What ⌘

Main goal:

Because changes are the only sureness in this world
Accordingly to the current: business context, owned full-stack, project complexity
Upgrading Drupal - nightmare or fun - yet necessity

Goal in details ⌘

Non comprehensive but strong comparison of the main choices

start it from scratch
- 2 cases (both are D7 => D8):
  - maes-trio.art.pl
  - mikula-drabek.art.pl
upgrade between 2 big next versions (6 => 7, 7 => 8, etc)
- 2 cases:
  - nobleprog.com (D5 => D6 => D7)
  - lshawk.pl (D8 => D9)
migrate into different framework/cms
- 2 cases (both are D7 => Backdrop):
  - cieciwa.com.pl
  - dadesktop.com

About me ⌘

NYPD (*)

TODO: put some funny pic here

(*) NobleProg Yippee-kay-yay Programmer Drupal

About me, Con't ⌘

Who is Luke? (Lucky or not?)

passionate husband and father (=
php and js programmer (vanilla, frameworks)
full-stack web developer (webservices, nodejs, etc)
IT trainer (did 301 courses so far, starting from 2009)

Experience ⌘

My 12 years with Drupal - oh my..

v5 - me crawling with D, so we're crawling together (-;
v6 - very first steps by myself, a loooooot of falls during..
v7 - thought I was finally mastering it, well.. oh sweet ignorance!
v8, v9 - back to crawling..
today - "I'm just a leaf spinning on the Drupal wind.." (-;

NobleProg early websites, 2005 ⌘

NobleProg early websites, 2007 ⌘

v5, 2008-2009 ⌘

Started with v5 - "Transformers"

my initial rapture quickly transformed into disappointment
very non intuitive UI, slowishness, buggy creature
definitely not like the Optimus Prime

NobleProg website, with D6 ⌘

v6, 2009-2010 ⌘

Here comes v6 - new "Alien" breed

hope and wishes became true
oh well.. truly new Features(Bugs) - too true..
GOODIES: finally got some kind of UI, improved Views, better content types
NOPES: no OOP, still slow, sort of like ShhWindows8 (middle-ware version to shut up the crowd)

D6 coder/user discovers D7

v7, 2010-? ⌘

Finally v7 happened - "Jupiter Ascending"

very promising, great actors involved and..
..that would be all, Folks..
GOODIES: a bit better UI, more best mods in core, entities intro
NOPES: still only pretending OOP, php-template engine, still slow

NobleProg website, with D7, early tests ⌘

NobleProg website, with D7, deployed ⌘

v8, 2016-? ⌘

"Yes we can!", v8 - "Valerian.."

great but not V8 (famous car engine)
"..and the City of a Thousand Planets" - yep, that's exactly 'Drupal 8' way
GOODIES: fully OOP, mobile friendly by design, sharing out convention
NOPES: ext dependencies(Symfony, etc), huge cow, composer

v9, 2019-? ⌘

Experiments in the core, v9 - "Valerian 2"

almost like Tesla cars - expensive, so environmental friendly (are they?!),
to be honest - just a new way of upgrading and testing new features
the rest of it is still a good old D8
drupal 9.0.x-dev -> October 2019
drupal 9.0.0-alpha1 -> February 2020
drupal 9.0.0 -> June 2020

Quiz ⌘

Which Drupal versions do you see?

Let's look at the options again ⌘

From scratch (no zero no hero)
Direct upgrade (the hardest one)
Backdrop goodies (going away)

Digression First - Real Training Case ⌘

March 2014 - NobleProg sells it's first Drupal 8 courses in Manchester (UK)

On that very time - there is drupal 8.0-alpha10 only (!)
I did those 2 courses (Administering a Drupal 8 Website; Drupal 8 Themes)
- successfully convinced the delegates
  - they should stay and focus with D7, why? (-;
  - or just wait for the stable D8 and do it from the very scratch, why? (=
- BTW, how long could they possibly wait? - drupal 8.0.0 => November 2015

From scratch ⌘

TODO

Direct upgrade ⌘