Website downtime

[Ben Cooksley]

On 6 July 2014 05:42, Myriam Schweingruber <myriam at kde.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:
>> On 5 July 2014 22:02, Myriam Schweingruber <myriam at kde.org> wrote:
>>> Hi Ben,
>>
>> Hi Myriam,
>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 2:26 AM, Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>> ...
>>>> It would be appreciated if those using Drupal 6 instances could
>>>> contact sysadmin so we can make plans to migrate those sites to Drupal
>>>> 7. The newer version of PHP in use on the new system causes Drupal 6
>>>> quite a few issues.
>>>>
>>>
>>> amarok.kde.org ist still using the old Drupal instance, so we would
>>> appreciate any help in the migration.
>>
>> There are two major issues I can see at the moment:
>>
>> 1) The theme, which will need to be rewritten.
>> 2) Gallery2 - which is long out of support, and unavailable for Drupal 7.
>>
>> You'll need to decide the fate of the gallery, and we'll need someone
>> to write a new theme.
>
> Hm, the gallery pictures we would just need a backup of so we can set
> up another gallery somewhere, it is not that essential, but the theme
> rewrite is another issue altogether :(

We can arrange that.

>
> I will have a look around who could help us with the theme rewrite.
> How extensive is that rewrite, just so I get an idea about the work
> needed?

I'm not sure how much effort it is (as i've never written a Drupal
theme), but the Drupal folks themselves seem to have a list of things
which have changed here: https://www.drupal.org/update/themes/6/7

>
>
> Regards, Myriam
>

Thanks,
Ben

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