What is your timeline? I dealt with a similar situation soon after Drupal 7 was released. But I needed to get something deployed rather quickly and I couldn't see anyone who had actually deployed 7 to a production site. So we used Drupal 6, and migrated about a year later. If you have the luxury of time, you might want to start with 8 and help some of the desired modules get to compatibility with 8? If you want/need the migrated site up before the end of the year, however, I'd recommend just going with 7. There will be less problems and you will have a several years to move it to 8.
Carol > On Mar 15, 2016, at 12:52 PM, Heller, Margaret <mhell...@luc.edu> wrote: > > I agree with Cary--I did an evaluation a few weeks ago for the possibility of > migrating our Drupal 7 site to Drupal 8, and determined that too many of the > modules we rely on were not yet available for Drupal 8. Some of the > functionality could no doubt be replicated with other methods, but the amount > of work it would take for dubious benefit made me decide to give it another > few months at least before reevaluating. That said, if you're going into it > fresh you might be able to get by without Drupal 7 modules, but you're going > to have limited choices currently for anything related to site > administration/backend stuff like webforms, backups, and redirects--all can > be done manually, but at a lot of extra overhead. > > Margaret Heller > Digital Services Librarian > Loyola University Chicago > 773-508-2686 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Cary > Gordon > Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2016 12:28 PM > To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Drupal 8 Library Extensions > > Hi David, > > What do you mean by "Drupal extensions designed for libraries”? Drupal 8 is > one month into release, and there are no library-specific modules that I know > of. Many of the the Drupal 7 modules that are popular in the library world > (and everywhere else) such as the awesome webform module, aren’t in general > release, yet. > > We build a lot of Drupal websites for libraries, and we do not expect to be > creating any general library sites in Drupal 8 until later this year. Drupal > 7 will be supported until Drupal 9 is released, and with Drupal's new point > release strategy, I estimate that Drupal 9 is at least four years out. > > Drupal 7 has broad adoption in the library community, and it has a wide range > of modules and tools for libraries. I recommend that you join the Drupal4Lib > mailing list <http://listserv.uic.edu/archives/drupal4lib.html>. There is > also a Libraries Drupal group <https://groups.drupal.org/libraries>. > > Thanks, > > Cary > >> On Mar 15, 2016, at 8:39 AM, David Uspal <david.us...@villanova.edu> wrote: >> >> Code4Lib, >> >> We're in the process of evaluating Drupal 8 as our main site CMS (we're on >> Concrete5 v6 so migrating to v7 is a large effort, which makes this a good >> time to evaluate alternatives). As such, I'm trying to compile a list of >> the most used Drupal extensions designed for libraries that are compatible >> with Drupal 8. Does anyone know where such a list might be found and/or >> could help in compiling such a list? Thanks! >> >> David K. Uspal >> Technology Development Specialist >> Falvey Memorial Library >> Phone: 610-519-8954 >> Email: david.us...@villanova.edu
