Talking Drupal Talking Drupal #419 - Drupal 7 EOL & Backdrop CMS
Oct 9, 2023
01:09:43
Today we are talking about Drupal 7 EOL, Backdrop CMS, and Upgrade strategy from Drupal 7 with guests Jen Lampton & Laryn Kragt Bakker. We’ll also cover Acquia Migrate: Accelerate as our module of the week.
For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/419
Topics- When is Drupal 7 EoL
- If someone is on Drupal 7 what are their options
- If someone does not have the resources to upgrade to Drupal 10 what can they do
- Can someone stay on Drupal 7 after EoL
- What is Backdrop CMS
- Listener question - James: Some people have mentioned that Backdrop has changed significantly since forking, does this affect upgrading from drupal 7
- Listener question - James: Will there be another fork
- How can Backdrop help people get off of Drupal 7
- Tell us a bit about Backdrop’s annual online event
- Is Backdrop negatively affecting Drupal 10 adoption
- How does someone get involved with Backdrop
- What are some big features on the Backdrop roadmap
- Drupal 7 EOL
- Backdrop CMS
- How to get involved
- GitHub
- Zulip
- Flightpath CLI
- compare d7 -> d10 vs d7 -> backdrop
- Drupal 7 soft landing
Laryn Kragt Bakker - atendesigngroup.com - laryn
HostsNic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Jen Lampton - jenlampton.com - jenlampton
MOTW CorrespondentMartin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu Acquia Migrate: Accelerate
- Brief description:
- Have you ever wanted to add a layer of automation to Drupal’s migrate API, to simplify the process of migrating content and site architecture from Drupal 7 to Drupal 9? There’s a module for that.
- Brief history
- How old: created in July 2020 by Aaron Winborn-award winner webchick
- Versions available:
- 1.8.0 release which works with Drupal 9
- Maintainership
- Actively maintained - latest release, its first as open source, was in the last week
- Number of open issues:
- 3 issues, none of which are bugs, and all labeled as fixed
- Usage stats:
- None, officially
- Maintainer(s):
- Current release by Wim Leers, a longtime Drupal contributor and core subsystem maintainer
- Module features and usage
- The goal of Migrate Accelerate is to make Drupal core’s migrate API something that can be used by less technical users to migrate a Drupal 7 site to a modern version of Drupal
- Relies on an Acquia CLI command to analyze your Drupal 7 site, so it can generate a composer.json file using an existing matrix of hundreds mappings from legacy modules to modern Drupal equivalents, including patches
- That composer file becomes the basis for your migrated site, into which it will begin to migrate your content architecture
- It provides a dashboard that lists out the various kinds of content found on the origin site, with an ability to control the order in which the migrations will be performed
- At any point it’s possible to see a live preview the content that’s been migrated, within the same UI
- There’s also a drush command to trigger the same process, which actually runs more efficiently but still allows for live preview
- If you want to get an estimate on how much of your Drupal 7 site can be migrated automatically, there is also a Flightpath report you can generate (using a drush command) which is an HTML file that summarizes how much of your Drupal 7 site can be migrated automatically
- Migrate Accelerate used to be available only to Acquia customers and partners, but with this new release anyone in the community can use it to help them migrate their Drupal 7 site forward