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22 June 2008

AskMecha: Drupal people. 6.2 has stuff I want, and some I neeeeeed, but, not a single module I use. What to do?[More:] I sue fairly simple stuff mostly, that may or may not already be in the 6.2 - like forums, and Comment upload, and rezining userimages. But then there's a few complicated things like eCommerce, and CCK and embedded media/audio - and these modules are not for Drupal six yet. I'm getting a creeping panic as teh search is quite borked in drupal 5.7 (as in, it keeps filling my logs with errors) and the patches to clear that up have failed me - but this issue is fixed in 6.2. I don't know what to do.

I have no money, the site does not make enough to pay a drupal person to fix things for me (though I really really wish it did), so I am entertaining this go-out-on-a-limb theory of switching to ad-based income and hopefully getting enough to pay a drupal-genious for their work, as teh switching can only happen after upgrading to 6.2 - but then again, I might not make that much on ads. Oh crap, I really feel like I'm painted into a corner.
Drupal 6 uses openID, fantastic, I want that!

posted by dabitch 22 June | 04:34
I guess what I'm really asking is, has anyone here switched to 6 yet?
I've tried it on a sandbox, but only got so far (then I found all the missing modules) and the upgrade itself went fine. It seems a lot faster and I like that, but shoudl I wait until more modules become available before taking the big plunge. I'm no smart module writer myself, sadly.
posted by dabitch 22 June | 04:51
I've now switched my personal blog to six and have come to this conclusion - not worth it (yet).

:)

[it worries me though that I grow dependent on modules that may not live in the next version of drupal. aargh, to keep up with upgrades!]
posted by dabitch 22 June | 12:52
My policy with this sort of thing is to ALWAYS wait until the newest version has matured enough to have significant community support (and module compatibility, etc). Yeah, the newest version will always have sexy features that the previous one didn't, but if you've lived without those features until now, you can live without them for a little while longer.
posted by treepour 22 June | 13:04
That's a good policy. The writeup of the changes made it sound far better than it actually was (for me)
posted by dabitch 22 June | 17:28
A new MuxTape of stuff from 1984. || Mysteriouser and mysteriouser...

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