What it takes when you Switch to Drupal8 from earlier Drupal vesions

Introduction

With the release of Drupal 8, one of the key questions is: “ Should Drupal companies start their business on Drupal 8?” In order to better answer this, let’s look at the lifecycle of a typical D8 project. It usually goes through the phases of: Discovery, Estimations,  Implementation and Quality Assurance.

Key Insights:

• The session will cover some of the issues we usually face in the Discovery phase.

  • Analysing the client’s requirements.
  • Mapping client requirements inside the project.
  • We have 200 modules in Drupal 7 sites. Do all of these need to be ported to Drupal 8? If yes, how much time will that take?
  • Good resources who have basic knowledge of Drupal 8 architecture.

• Formulate rough estimates of the amount of time required, and explain this to the client.

• We look at various community contributions and pick up stuff that would add to our learnings and help us with the project.

• Explore out of the box features available inside the community.

• Identify new learnings from the project, to contribute back for the benefit of larger audience. 

• Retrospect how we managed things & implemented in the project, when the  stable version of Drupal 8  was not yet released.

• A comprehensive view of the things we learnt when migrating from D7 to D8.

Audience:

This session would be useful for all the Drupal shops, Drupal enthusiasts, Developers and Drupal-Themers; who would, sooner or later, want to shift their teams to D8. And once that’s decided, they can just these simple rules for a successful migration.