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