Should you upgrade your Drupal 7 website or migrate to Drupal 8?
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The document discusses whether to upgrade a Drupal 7 website to Drupal 8, outlining key differences and factors influencing the decision. It presents pros and cons for both scenarios, emphasizing considerations such as investment, current website setup, and future needs. The conclusion provides guidance on when to stay with Drupal 7 or move to Drupal 8 based on specific organizational requirements.
Should you upgrade your Drupal 7 website or migrate to Drupal 8?
- 1. Should you upgrade your Drupal 7 website or migrate to Drupal 8? DrupalCamp Montreal 2017 – Symetris.ca
- 2. Today’s agenda 1. About Symetris 2. Why this question is important 3. Differences (and similarities) between D7 & D8 4. What factors can influence your decision? Risks and benefits of each scenario 5. Conclusion
- 4. Unlock your web potential with Symetris *** • Founded in 2004 – 13 years ago! • 17 experts (most certified devs in Qc) • Masters of Drupal since “Drupal 5” • Regular Drupalcamp presenters and sponsors
- 5. Our team
- 6. Brad Muncs President @ Symetris About me
- 7. Chapter 1 Staying with D7 or moving to D8: Why the question is important
- 8. I’m starting with a few assumptions ○ You have already invested in Drupal 7 ■ So I don’t need to convince you that Drupal is cool ○ You want to maintain or evolve your existing platform or website ○ You’re looking for an answer in “business speak”, not in technobabble
- 9. Elements that impact your decision ○ What is the best ROI? ■ Cost/time of effort vs return ○ How much time will this take to implement? ○ Will there be any changes to flexibility, stability or durability? ○ Will it be easier to maintain content for site administrators ○ Will it be easier to maintain code for developers?
- 10. The answer, of course is: IT DEPENDS The goal of this presentation is to help you make the right decision for your organization based on your specific context. I want to help you identify the elements that will influence your decision.
- 11. Chapter 2 Differences (and similarities) between D7 and D8
- 12. Maturity ○ Drupal 7 was launched in January 2011 ○ Drupal 8 was launched in November 2015 ○ (That’s 5 years apart.)
- 13. Technical enhancements in D8 ○ Easier configuration management ■ Better deployments and more sophisticated maintenance ○ Cleaner code ■ Uses Symfony and more object-oriented code ○ More modules are “core” in D8 ■ Including “view” and “multilingualism”
- 14. Business enhancements in D8 ○ Easier to edit content ○ Mobile backend (for editing on the fly) ○ Better language/multilingual support ○ More digiral ecosystem integrations ○ Faster deployments ○ Better performance and scalability ○ “Content as a service” easy to implement
- 15. Chapter 3 Factors that can influence your decision: risks and benefits for both scenarios
- 16. Factors that influence risk & benefits ○ Current D7 Setup ○ Quantity and complexity of data ○ Budget (time & money) ○ Scope of upcoming enhancements ○ Projected lifetime of existing website ○ Completely new/standalone project?
- 17. Chapter 4 Conclusion: best cases for both scenarios (stay D7 vs go D8)
- 18. Stay with D7 if you: ○ Aren’t planning any major enhancements ○ Are planning a complete redesign within the next 2 years (wait to move to D8 then) ○ Have lots of custom-developed modules, custom workflows or interactions with external systems/data ○ Need to deploy very quickly (weeks) ○ Need to keep the budget as light as possible in the short term (might be higher in long run)
- 19. Upgrade to D8 if you: ○ Have important new features to add ○ Need to guarantee ongoing support for 5+ yrs ○ Regularly update content or use multiple languages (easier in D8) ○ Have a “low complexity” website ○ Can invest more time and money upfront (to reduce the cost down the line) ○ Have frequent deployments (easier in D8) ○ Have high requirements for performance and scalability ○ Are starting a new project
- 20. Merci ! Any questions? Contact us at info@symetris.ca Presentation soon available on Slideshare PS: We’re looking for Drupal developers! Send your CV!
Editor's Notes
- #2: Et voila, c’est parti! S’amuser et parler len-te-ment ;)
- #3: Explain that I will take a high-level business approach, not too technical Should I have a concrete example?
- #5: Présentation globale de Symetris.
- #7: Talk about what I like, where I come from. How I “fell into” Drupal. Say that I’ve done lots of previous drupalcamp conferences (one a year for last 6 years) My previous dcamp presentations I love travelling, philosophy, music.
- #9: Expliquer notre échelle de complexité Ask questions : how long used D7? Already D8 projects? anybody already made that decision?
- #10: Expliquer notre échelle de complexité
- #11: Expliquer notre échelle de complexité
- #13: stability, larger community, more test-proven, etc.
- #14: stability, larger community, more test-proven, etc.
- #15: stability, larger community, more test-proven, etc.
- #17: D7 setup: level of customization impacts it Quy data: Includes interaction of that data within the system Budget: Migrating to D8 is more costly and time consuming Scope enhancements: if you plan on major overhaul of website within 2 years, then wait until then Lifetime: if same for 5+ years, D7 might not be supported Standalone? Go with D8 if not linked to existing ecosystem
- #21: Thanks MTL, I’d love to chat ;)