[NFB-Web] Drupal 9

[Andrews, David B (DEED)]

What is not ready?

We are probably upgrading to CentOS 7 in about a week.

Dave



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Another consideration, when looking at upgrading to D9 is the server settings of NFBnet. Many affiliates are hosted there and it’s not ready for D9.

— Arthur

> On Jun 19, 2020, at 3:38 PM, Gary Wunder via NFB-Web <nfb-web at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> I get that, and so too do our leaders. That's why I make a special ask to come to the meeting and not to jump ship just yet.
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> Warmly,
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> Gary
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> From: NFB-Web <nfb-web-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Joe Orozco via 
> NFB-Web
> Sent: Friday, June 19, 2020 2:07 PM
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> Cc: Joe Orozco <jsorozco at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [NFB-Web] Drupal 9
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> I look forward to the meeting. And, to be clear, I'm not rallying for an overhaul of something I know has been in the development stages for years now. The more I work with Drupal though, the more I worry about the number of affiliate sites on Drupal 7 that will require extra help from the national office to transition over to Drupal 9 in a way that keeps things in tact. We need more web development help from the national office in general to get on the template they would like to see us be using.
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> Joe
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> From: Gary Wunder <gwunder at earthlink.net>
> Sent: Friday, June 19, 2020 2:57 PM
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> Cc: 'Joe Orozco' <jsorozco at gmail.com>
> Subject: RE: [NFB-Web] Drupal 9
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> Please let us discuss this at the webmaster's meeting before making changes. It is has been tough trying to support multiple platforms. We will have a meeting at the convention, and if that isn't soon enough, some of us can get together to discuss by phone or Zoom.
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> Warmly,
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> Gary
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> From: NFB-Web <nfb-web-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Joe Orozco via 
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> Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2020 11:59 AM
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> Cc: Joe Orozco <jsorozco at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [NFB-Web] Drupal 9
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> I think it also worth having a conversation over whether or not it makes sense to continue using Drupal at a state level. My affiliate will kill me to hear such a suggestion after begging and pleading to switch from WordPress to Drupal, in part to fall in line with the template the national office was promising. I still maintain Drupal is the better of the two content management systems, but the steep learning curve makes it harder to allow volunteers to work on the site without fear of breaking one of its components without creating roles with severe restrictions. Moving from D 7 to D 8 is a heavy lift, but I started our affiliate out on D 7 because that is the version the national office was leveraging its template. At a national level it makes sense to take full advantage of the flexibility to render a variety of content types. I could even see a scenario where the national office creates a system of sub domains to power affiliate sites, but the more static nature of the average affiliate site is sadly making me rethink the value of having pleaded a case for Drupal. Anyway, just one guy's opinion.
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> Joe
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> From: NFB-Web <nfb-web-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of NFB of 
> Illinois Webmaster via NFB-Web
> Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2020 11:39 AM
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> Subject: Re: [NFB-Web] Drupal 9
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> I also want an update from National regarding the new Drupal template they promised us last year.
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> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Jun 17, 2020, at 11:34 AM, Corbb O'Connor via NFB-Web <nfb-web at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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>> Gary, I know that our staff has been swamped the past few months. Could we discuss Joe’ Joe’s question  at national convention, along with the status of template updates (to bring these sites in line with national look and feel)?
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>> Sent from my iPhone
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>>>> On Jun 16, 2020, at 11:31 AM, Joe Orozco via NFB-Web <nfb-web at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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>>> Hi, has anyone successfully installed Drupal 9? I attempted to 
>>> upgrade from Drupal 8, but I kept receiving generic error messages 
>>> that told me nothing about what specifically was wrong with the new 
>>> installation. There was no custom code to prepare for the new 
>>> installation, and I thought Drupal 9 would automatically remove any 
>>> code deprecations. My only other hypothesis was the lack of a proper 
>>> environment. My web host will not let me update MariaDB to 10.3, and 
>>> despite changing the PHP version to 7.3, the web host system seems 
>>> stuck at 7.2. I see Acquia developed a driver for backward 
>>> compatibility, but the path they lay out to install the driver files 
>>> does not match the path I see in my Drupal 9 package. Can anyone 
>>> shed light? I'm testing the newer CMS on my own personal site before 
>>> asking my affiliate's webmaster to similarly authorize the update on 
>>> our affiliate site, but I don't want to move them off D 7 until I can firmly put them on a path to D 9. Thank you kindly in advance for any assistance you can provide.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Joe
>>>