I'm looking for someone located here in Toronto to migrate a tiny organization's small Drupal 6 website to 7 (soitoronto.org). Yes, we're late to that party! I'm a volunteer responsible for the website, who has not had time to support the site properly, and am hoping to pay someone to help me catch up.
The site first needs updating of modules, as I've fallen way behind on that too. (sigh)
This would be a contract job, probably for someone with advanced skills (is migration ever easy?), in two parts: the modules update and then the migration. Our group is hoping to position the website for a migration to v8 and a theme update, (not necessarily in that order) for which we'll probably want help also.
-- Eric
P.S. Although I've enabled my personal contact form here, I get an access denied error ("You are not authorized to access this page.") when I go there. Does it work for other people? In case not, I'm at: mousemambo@yahoo.com
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D8 Directly
It might be easier to go directly from D6 to D8; skip D7 entirely. Otherwise, you're really doing two (2) migrations.
If you can drop forum support
If you can drop forum support you probably can go directly to D8.
Migration module has D8 support already.
I wouldn't jump the gun on D8!
I have yet to spend a lot of time with Drupal 8, but I'm not so sure I would recommend average site users with volunteer administrators move to Drupal 8 yet!
There are tons of contrib modules that still haven't started thinking about 8. A quick check into Calendar, which Eric's site appears to need, is an example. Not even an initial dev version is available:
https://www.drupal.org/node/92594/release
Maybe it depends on the timeline? Still seems early to recommend migrating to 8 to me!
Agreed
I agree. In my opinion D8 is still a ways away, and even when it's released it will probably be a long time for the contrib ecosystem to catch up with the significant architectural changes.
I'd stick with D7 for now, since it should be well supported for at least the next couple of years. Plus as contrib plays catch up migrations from D7 to D8 will become much better supported than they are now.
Depends on go-live date
It really depends on the target go-live date. The formula I usually go with is the estimated release date + 6 months (to allow time for contrib modules to catch up).
If you need to go live before that, go with 7. Otherwise, 8 is an option.
Also, keep an eye on the contrib modules you use via Upgrade Status.