Ca y est ! tomdeb.org tourne maintenant sur drupal 6.0.

Quelques modules manquent encore a l'appel mais j'avais trop envie de mettre a jour.

Pour ceux que ca interesse, la 'press release' pour Drupal 6 est disponible sur drupal.org. Pour ceux qui n'ont pas le temps, en voici un extrait:

Drupal 6 approche a grands pas, a pas de géants même. La liste des améliorations et nouveautés est longue..

Les premiers tests de migration de tomdeb.org vers drupal6 ont été concluants bien que problématiques. En effet, le système de theme a été grandement modifie, y compris le moteur de thème phptemplate lui-même. Heureusement, toutes les modifications sont bien documentées.

J'ai commencé quelques tests de mise a jour du site vers 5.0rc1. Cette mise a jour est majeure et il est donc essentiel de suivre une procédure assez strict si on ne veut pas recommencer plusieurs fois. voici donc ma checklist :

• Faire une sauvegarde complète des fichiers ET bases de données du site !!!!
• Désactiver les modules additionnels:
  

I have always thought that drupal has serious shortcomings when it comes to handling image. As usual with Drupal, there are a significant number of ways to get image handling capability. The following modules provide it (in no particular order) :
- acidfree
- gallery
- image
Those 3 modules are interesting as they tackle the same problem in 3 different ways.

I changed my theme again.

I have scrapped my css and started a brand new one from scratch. I also did a bit of tidying up in the modules and blocks. I wanted the site to be easier to use and clearer for visitors. And that's why there is now only one column and one (rather obvious) menu. I also wanted to apply a few tricks that I learned while working on drupalfr with Damz.

the plan is fairly straightforward .... clone the database site,update and try to fix all the little shitty sql errors i keep getting since i updated to 4.7.
That will hopefully be one item striked off my procrastination list !

this is just a quick test.
it confirms two things :
- my update to drupal 4.7 (released today) worked.
- gnome-blog might be a software worth considering
more details [ hopefully ] later ...

I have setup a complete replicas (as of yesterday) off this site on tomdeb.net. THis only and quite massive difference is that it's run by the latest release candidate of the next version of Drupal (4.7).
The theme went accross without a single modification. their upgrade process is now working well but it still could have set the collition of my mysql tables right.