Migration Plan from Drupal 6 to Drupal 8

“Drupal 6 core and modules will transition to unsupported status three months after Drupal 8 is released”. Now it is the time to consider the migration plan from Drupal 6 to Drupal 8.

Phase I: Drupal 8 Investigations and Researches

- Drupal 8 Features
- Testing server on XAMPP 1.8.3: PHP 5.5.11, Apache 2.4.9, MySQL 5.6.16
- Install Drupal 8 alpha and beta versions

Phase II: Geneseo Drupal 6 Platform Overview

- Infrastructure
- Integrated and consistent Websites
- Drupal Theme & Template Design
- Third party modules we utilized
- Customizing Drupal 6 core
- Building custom modules to fill gaps

Phase III: Module Migration from Drupal 6 to Drupal 8

- Geneseo Modules
- Contributed Module

Phase IV: Themes & Templates Migration from Drupal 6 to Drupal 8

- geneseo_all theme
- geneseo_garland theme
- geneseo_library theme
- mobile theme

Phase V: Database Migration from Drupal 6 to Drupal 8

- Drupal Migrate module
- Database Structure: Drupal 6 V.S. Drupal 8

Phase VI: Geneseo Web Sites Migration and Cut Over