Drupal 8

1st Edition March 2014

State of Drupal 2014

http://w3techs.com/technologies/ http://trends.builtwith.com/cms http://www.opensourcecms.com/general/cms-marketshare.php

• Top 3 CMS

• No. 1 for complex sites

• Built on PHP, world’s most popular language

• Growing community (> 600k members)

• Superb Drupal Association

• > 30’000 modules and developers

• Thriving ecosystem with bullish distributors

Major Drupal Releases

!http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drupal, 14 March 2014

Core & Contrib Modules

• Core 8.0: ~Q3 2014

• Contrib 8.0: ~Q1 - Q2 2015

Contrib 30’000 Modules

Core

Usage statistics for all Drupal projects

1,014,252 Drupal

Projects

!https://drupal.org/project/usage/drupal, 22 February 2014

What will Drupal 8 bring?

What will Drupal 8 bring?

Configuration Management

REST

Responsive

Multilingual

More Modules in Core

What will Drupal 8 bring?

Configuration Management

REST

Responsive

Multilingual

More Modules in Core

What will Drupal 8 bring?

Configuration Management

REST

Responsive

Multilingual

More Modules in Core

What will Drupal 8 bring?

Configuration Management

REST

Responsive

Multilingual

More Modules in Core

What will Drupal 8 bring?

Configuration Management

REST

Responsive

Multilingual

More Modules in Core

What will Drupal 8 bring?

Configuration Management

REST

Responsive

Multilingual

More Modules in Core

Why not upgrade to Drupal 8?

• Drupal 7 will be security supported until Drupal 9

• All features of Drupal 8 are available in Drupal 7

• Most contrib modules have not been upgraded yet

• Teething problems

When should I upgrade?

• If current site is built in Drupal 6

• If a structural/functional rebuild of the Drupal 7 site is required anyway

How to migrate to Drupal 8Drupal 6/7 Drupal 8

Configuration & Functionality

Content

Configuration & Functionality

Content

Rebuild

Migration Module

Why upgrade when restructuring?Drupal 8 upgrade after restructuring

Drupal 8 upgrade while restructuring

Migration & Adaption for new Structure

Testing, PM, etc

Implementation of new Structure

Testing, PM, etc

Migration

Implementation of Drupal 8

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Implementation of Drupal 8

Migration

Testing, PM, etc

Upgr

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Questions?