[Community] idcommons drupal site

[Fen Labalme]

Hi Bob -

Yes, I think the transition from 5->6 should be easy.  I originally went
with 6-beta1 as at that time I thought 6 final would be out before the
Dec IIW, and also the backport of the Drupal 6 OpenID module was not
available at the time.  But as 6 has been slower than expected (well, I
should have expected this ;-) ) and as the module set we'd like to use
will take some time to catch up (cck, views, civicrm, others) I think we
should drop back to 5.5 now.

CivicActions will begin developing with Drupal 6 once a) it's final and
b) stable versions of cck and views exist.  We're already helping with
bug fixing and conversion of some modules, and we'll be motivated to
convert more modules once 6 is final.  (Yeah, it's a chicken and egg
problem, but we're doing what we can.)

Bottom line, the idcommons.net site is not being used yet and there is
zero content on it (other than the home page).  So all we lose are eight
login accounts (and about 20 spam accounts) that can be easily
re-created by the owners.  I think it's time to drop back and punt - it
cuts our losses, gets us going with a stable platform now, and we can
upgrade later.

So again, I'm planning on switching the live site back to Drupal 5.5 and
a few people will have to recreate accounts.  I think I'll do this later
today unless I hear some solid reasons not to.

=Fen


Bob Snodgrass wrote:
> Not sure if I have a vote, but here is my 2 cents worth...
>
> I will be meeting this evening with a bunch of my fellow Chicago Drupal User
> Group folks and get their perspective. I understood from our November
> meeting that the release of 6 could be due out by end of year or mid
> January, this was from a few folks working on core.  
>
> My initial feeling is that the transition should be fairly painless from 5.5
> to 6 and there are more modules available for 5.5 and tested at this point.
> Transitioning from version 5.5 to 6 in 3-6 months might make good sense.
> Fen, when is Civic Actions planning on making the switch?  I would assume
> they would wait for all their target modules to be prepared.
>
> Is Boris Mann still with us on the mailing list? His input would be valuable
> on this topic.
>
> Bob Snodgrass
> net2Community, Inc.
> http://www.net2community.com 
> 630-781-9883
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: community-bounces at idcommons.net
> [mailto:community-bounces at idcommons.net] On Behalf Of Fen Labalme
> Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 11:01 PM
> To: ID Commons---Community Mailing List
> Subject: [Community] idcommons drupal site
>
> Hi Eugene (et al) -
>
> Drupal 6 is simply taking too long to appear and the Drupal 6 OpenID
> module has been backported to Drupal 5.
>
> So I have just created a development (testing) site
> <http://dev.idcommons.net/> which is Drupal 5.5 with the backported
> OpenID extension, plus CCK, Views, CiviCRM and a few other useful
> modules thrown in.
>
> I think we should switch to this Drupal 5.5 version, but I can't
> (easily) move user accounts backwards (from the current Drupal 6-beta
> back to Drupal 5.5).  So any current user accounts will be lost and you
> will have to create new accounts.
>
> Shall I promote <http://dev.idcommons.net/> to <http://idcommons.net/>? 
> I vote "yes".
>
> =Fen
>
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