About me

Benji Fisher
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twitter: @benji17fisher

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Find a link to this presentation on my GitLab Pages:

• https://benjifisher.gitlab.io/slide-decks/index.html

Outline

• Introduction
• Lando for Local Development
• GitLab for Project Hosting
• What’s My Line?
• Wicked Local Development
• The Best Laid Plans
• Conclusion

The Five Ws

• Who: You, me, any friends we can get to join us
• What: Upgrade a legacy site (D6 or D7) to Drupal 9 (D9)
• Where: Greater Boston
• Why:
  • Help out a worthy cause.
  • Learn by doing.
  • Get to know each other by working together.
  • When: Start today, check in next month.

Get Lando

1. https://lando.dev/download/
2. Follow the download link.
3. Follow instructions.

Why Lando

• You can run your Drupal site from your own computer.
• There are other options. I like Lando, and this project uses it.
• Give it a try. At least start the download.
• More to come: Wicked Local Development

Get a GitLab account (free)

If you want to participate in this project, get an account.

1. https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/
2. FREE box: “Start now” button
3. Give me your user name on Slack or Zoom chat.
4. Get an invitation to the project.

Why GitLab

• Issues
• Wiki
• Code repository (git)
• Time tracking
• Much more

What do you like to do/learn?

• Project management
• Documentation
• Promotion
• Planning
• Migration
• Site building

Project management

• Create and organize issues.
• Find bottlenecks.
• Make issue templates.
• I don’t know, you tell me!

Documentation

• Write and test documentation.
• Start with the Wiki.
• Markdown everywhere!

Promotion

• Social media
• Blog posts
• Get your friends involved.

Planning

• Make an issue if you need to.
• Get the legacy site running: Wicked Local Development
• List all the … on the legacy site:
  • modules
  • views
  • content types/fields
  • menus

Migration

1. Find the custom module.
2. Look in the migrations/ directory.
3. Use one of the existing files as a model.

Site building

1. Create fields and content types. Export as site config.
2. Create views.
3. Add, enable, and configure modules.

Get the files

1. Make a directory, say boston-drupal-meetup.
2. Find the “Clone” button on the project page.
3. Copy the URL.
4. In boston-drupal-meetup, git clone ... (paste URL).

If you do not like command line or git, find the Releases tab. D/l a tarball.

Start your LAMP stack

1. In terminal, go to boston-drupal-meetup/newsite.
2. lando start
3. lando composer install
4. lando drush site:install --db-url=mysql://drupal9:drupal9@database/drupal9 --existing-config
5. lando drush user:login

Do it again!

Follow the same steps to create boston-drupal-meetup/legacy and start the legacy site.

TODO

TODO

• Introduction
• Lando for Local Development
• GitLab for Project Hosting
• What’s My Line?
• Wicked Local Development
• The Best Laid Plans
• Conclusion

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