Upgrade discussion

We had a small group at our meetup in Lawrence last night, but an excellent discussion.

We talked about different upgrade methods:

• The normal way, where you disable all modules, remove sites/all/modules, replace D6 files with D7 files (except for sites folder), and then run update.
• The drush way, with drush site-upgrade
• Starting fresh with a D7 site and importing

None are ideal. The drawback with the first two is that there may be errors to deal with, and the third is time-consuming but predictable (assuming the D6 site is in good shape already).

Then we talked about the Feed and Migrate modules, both of which have a place but require modifications.

Useful tools: Upgrade Status module, Content Migrate module (part of the contrib CCK for D7).

The food, company, and discussion were very enjoyable.