Upgrade CivicActions Home Site to 6.x

Doug Green

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October 26, 2008

Upgrade CivicActions Home Site to 6.x

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We upgraded the home site to 6.x last week. Other than a broken login (phpass on 6.x) for about a day, it's been a smooth upgrade. Kevin helped me get the ball rolling during DrupalCon, but it took up until last week to finish due to competing priorities, and some of the complexities. This is an incremental upgrade, in that we didn't really fix much that was wrong with the site. We are in the process of a major site redesign. But I believe that this should is a two-step process. It's easier to implement and test one change at a time, the Drupal upgrade first, then the site redesign. First read the upgrade instructions on drupal.org. The details of our upgrade are:
  • upgrade all 5.x modules to the latest stable versions, run update.php in 5.x
  • upgrade civicrm to 2.0 in 5.x
  • upgrade phpass, civicrm20compat, civicactions, and our custom modules to 6.x
  • install 6.x, run update.php
  • install and configure mollum instead of spam
  • As part of our custom module upgrades, when doing the upgrade in a local sandbox, the 5.x views1 views were upgraded to views2, then exported to code (in one of the custom modules).
  • imagefield has some upgrade path issues. See #296195
Nedjo gets the prize for the first blog post on the new site, and a great one at that! There are a few minor tweaks to the site:
  • A few css tweaks that makes sure that input fields fit within their container, in both the main body and the right sidebar. These input fields were causing a lot of extra white space on certain forms, such as the node/add form.
  • Gregory and Aaron reworked our people page as well as our vision statement
  • All news content was converted to blog's

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