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Downfallguild.org is moving from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7! This project will help manage that.

It’s time to make downfallguild.org realize a lot more of it’s potential. We're moving to Drupal 7 and the primary goal is to migrate content, refactor functionality and simplify across the board.

Approach

After trying to do a straight upgrade on the existing site, it was determined we'd port content into a fresh Drupal 7 install instead. Mainly using the Migrate, Migrate D2D, and Features, we can build up a much cleaner platform - and remove 5 years of cruft and fluff.

• The custom migrate module is migratedf
• The custom features module is migratedf_features

Useful commands

• Use rsync (from within local/htdocs/downfal/d6) to PULL FROM REMOTE: rsync -zvr [email protected]:webapps/downfall_drupal/ ./
• Zip all and hidden files from downfall dir to temp proj folder on server (after ssh in): tar cvzf ~/projects/df-up/df_files.tar.gz ~/webapps/downfall_drupal/

Important links

• Commonly implemented migration methods: prepareRow(), prepare(), complete(), createStub();

Migration Outline

See the list here for D2D migrations (bottom).

1. Input formats - DONE
2. Role migration - DONE
3. User migration - DONE
4. File migration - DONE
   • ensure that the folder "d6files" is symlinked from the original d6 site
   • may require this patch to Migrate: http://drupal.org/node/1901648
5. User Picture migration - DONE
   • may require this patch to Migrate: http://drupal.org/node/1901648
6. Taxonomy term migration - DONE
7. Node migration
   • Blogs - DONE
   • Pages - DONE, merged to Article
   • Stories - DONE, merged to Article
   • Guild apps - DONE, includes image field mapping (POSSIBLY move to Media module for images once it's working below)
   • Forum Posts - DONE, a little re-org is necessary (at term level).
     • Migrate module has a shitty time with line 1234ish (if (!$destids)) ..., comment out to continue
   • Events - DONE, both old types merged into new Event type
   • Book pages - DONE, All content comes over BUT Hierarchy is not, fix query to set.
   • Images (nodes from Image module)
     • setting the d6files symlink is very important
     • The image_assist embeds are now handled with a parent class that filters to media json
     • Remove all the Image "gallery grid, preview, thumbnail" file entries (after full migration)
   • Organic Groups (raids)
     • THIS REQUIRES UPGRADING OG IN D6 TO THE LATEST VERSION
     • We have to copy the og d6 tables to the DRUPAL 7 database, possibly, og_migrate_api() in og.module.
     • D6 tables it's looking for: demo_d6 > d6_og, demo_og_ui > d6_og_ui, demo_og_ancestry > d6_og_ancestry
     • Basically, OG migrate is looking for tables IN our database, it's not connecting to external database. Might be able to get around this with more experiments.
     • Must delete og rows in field_config_instance, otherwise, can't enable og after uninstalling
8. Comment migration - ALL COMMENTS NEED image_assist solved first (so all Image migrated)
   • Blog
   • Pages
   • Stories
   • Guild apps
   • Forums posts
   • Events
   • Book pages - A lot of nodes do not exist, fixing above
   • Images
   • Organic groups
9. Menu migration

Design inspiration

1. Paragon does guild sites perfectly: http://www.paragon.fi/media
2. Manaflask, does Ensidia: http://manaflask.com/en/
3. Method Guild: http://www.methodwow.com/
4. Blood Legion guild: http://www.bloodlegion.com/ (check out that "needs" widget)
5. WoWInsider: notice the way they use the context images for stuff. gives it that "texture"
6. MacroWoW has good texture and wow-feel: http://macro-wow.com/
7. Dribble
8. Our light, textured style: http://thewirecutter.com/
9. Great usage of fonts. http://blog.shipmentapp.com/
10. FED http://paper.li/neutralthoughts/1353674004
11. Peacock http://peacock.st/
12. This fucking insanity: http://std.li/pastel/home.html#home
13. holy jesus tits https://diy.org/skills/rocketeer
14. rewrite http://readwrite.com/
15. CloudFlare's control panel UI is quite nice.
16. Black Pixel: http://blackpixel.com
17. Kaleidoscope app: http://kaleidoscopeapp.com
18. Font combinations: futura/museoslab - http://ifontyou.com/combos/79
19. Thinkshout's whitespace with semi-contained "sidebar": http://thinkshout.com/blog/2012/01/lev/entity-registrations
20. A really good font, and really good design elements. http://designmodo.com/flat-free/
21. Great typography, good white layout: http://lhmdesign.com/neptune/
22. A site that could be defined as "perfect" http://forecast.io
23. If we want to go the "hexagon" route: http://blog.ansacopeland.com/chatter/2013/3/25/hover-friendly-hexagons
24. I really like the way this header behaves (as well as the whitespace): http://singlebrook.com/blog/creating-custom-beans-in-drupal-part-1
25. http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/ - a lot of content, whitespace, light color but with great design.
26. GRADIENTZ!! http://css3ps.com/
27. Downfall history timeline: http://tympanus.net/codrops/2013/05/02/vertical-timeline/
28. Flat UI: http://designmodo.github.io/Flat-UI/, PRO: http://designmodo.com/flat/
29. Mashable has the perfect layout: http://mashable.com/2013/05/31/bill-nye-qa/?cid=Mash-Product-RSS-Pheedo-All-Partial
30. More really good layout/design from ink: http://ink.sapo.pt/
31. Great flat, content-focused layout: http://listverse.com/2013/01/03/10-deadliest-world-events-in-human-history/
32. Font we should totally use: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/source-sans-pro
33. I really like the Lato font used body text here: http://thomashunter.name/blog/the-javascript-event-loop-presentation/