[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Input Needed: Drupal project for evergreen-ils.org (Roma Matott)

[Anoop Atre]

> Are there modules that we want to use?  What version of Drupal do they
work with?
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I see that Koha uses Plone (another system I actually prefer over
Drupal) I'm assuming Drupal came up only because we have people with
expertise in that system? What is the current setup to maintain the site
- SVN?


> Yeah, despite the coolness of rapid growth and new modules, Drupal
upgrades continue to be a pain point.  A major version Drupal upgrade is
more like a migration to a totally new system.  Inevitably, some of your
favorite components will not keep pace, or will change functionality, or
will lose their settings from the previous version.  But of course you
are enticed by the "must have" modules that don't have any backports and
are only available in the newer versions.

> In practice, none of the Drupal sites I've been around have survived
an upgrade entirely intact.  (I'm just as happy not to have been
admining any of them.)  That explains waiting a year to move to newer code.

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I myself am a TYPO3 fan where I have seen pretty minimal issues with
upgrades, of course big version changes are not as frequent and I'd
argue TYPO3 "is hardER to beat as a total package" to feed the flame war : )

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