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

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