Talking Drupal #419 - Drupal 7 EOL & Backdrop CMS

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

Resources

Drupal 7 EOL

Backdrop CMS

How to get involved

GitHub

Zulip

Flightpath CLI

compare d7 -> d10 vs d7 -> backdrop


https://backdropcms.org/news/why-we-moved-two-stanford-websites-to-backdrop-cms


https://atendesigngroup.com/articles/making-case-drupal-7-backdrop-cms-upgrade



Drupal 7 soft landing

Guests

Laryn Kragt Bakker - atendesigngroup.com - laryn
Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Jen Lampton - jenlampton.com - jenlampton
MOTW Correspondent

Martin 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