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