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MGoJob: Drupal 8 Migration Comment Count

Brian

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It's time to update MGoBlog to the latest version of Drupal. I'm looking for a Drupal developer who is familiar with MGoBlog to create a version of the site in Drupal 8. This is a contract job; if you're interested there would also be an ongoing maintenance aspect as we tweak the site and add bells and whistles.

Requirements are somewhat flexible since Drupal 8 and its contrib constellation are still in flux, but an outline:

  • implement a modern responsive theme for the site that we already have mocked up
  • implement a Drupal 8 version of the XML RPC module that allows Windows Live Writer to work in 6
  • implement as much of the current site functionality as possible given the state of contrib (userpoints not working will be a major issue, for one), adding as contrib fills in
  • make sure performance is at least as good and hopefully better than the existing site
  • migrate content, taxonomy, diaries, and users, in some form. I am completely happy to leave previous content behind in static pages as long as the URLs remain the same and you can still get to them in some form from the tag pages.
Budget is "I don't know, I've never budgeted something like this." I am expecting something in the five digit range. You will know better than I what is feasible if you're a good candidate. Timeframe is 3-6 months, but is flexible since we are aiming at a moving target. Email me at [email protected] if you're interested.

Comments

BehindEnemyLin…

December 1st, 2015 at 2:56 PM ^

I thought Drupal 8 was the small, lush planet orbiting the large star, Drupal, in the "goldy locks zone," eighth of the twenty-two known planets there.  Perhaps the next home for mankind (and hopefully womankind, too).  Am I right?

Joined: 10/18/2010

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Chris S

December 1st, 2015 at 3:21 PM ^

Not gonna lie, I like the current format a lot. It seems like all of the websites now have the same format and look exactly the same.

But I'll still read as always!

Joined: 11/16/2013

MGoPoints: 2647

MileHighWolverine

December 1st, 2015 at 4:00 PM ^

I just came to see people complain about how long this has taken to get here and also complain about the continuation of a less than I ideal platform to do it on (drupal).

Looks like I came to the right place.

 

 

Joined: 09/02/2008

MGoPoints: 7749

Esterhaus

December 1st, 2015 at 6:01 PM ^

 

All ye that enter the site during the migration. A case study awaits you. I notified a dozen developer clients - so they might compete for the project - and the universal response was AAAAAHHHHHHHH Hell Nope! A 100% 'hell nopes' from talented shops does not bode well. Good luck and pray to Jesus, it's His birthday soon and mercy may be granted.

Joined: 03/16/2015

MGoPoints: 7733

andrew_

December 1st, 2015 at 11:26 PM ^

I registered just to comment on this. Been reading the blog for eons. As a 20 year veteran web developer I have this advice for you:

FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HARBAUGH, NO MORE DRUPAL

Honestly, it's a framework on the way out. It's massive. It's slow. It's an effing pain in the butt to work with. There are oodles of other frameworks out there that you could chose that are so far superior to Drupal that it's downright silly. And they alllll have migration scripts for the database and your CMS content.

Get yourself right. Get yourself some HTML5 and CSS3, and a framework that uses a friendly template language natively; jade, handlebars, mustache, anything other than Drupal's default. 

Django
Any of the Oodles NodeJS CMSeseseseseses
Any of the Oodles of Ruby CMSeses'
 

For Hoke's sake - DRUPAL IS PHP. PHP! It's the Dave Brandon of webdev languages anymore. It had it's time, and we were all left wanting.

I work for a rather large Flash Sale company out of NYC that uses Scala of all things, which I loathe, but I'd take that over PHP any day. I'd be happy to consult on tech and architecture gratis if you'd like, just hit me up at the email on this account. 

Joined: 12/01/2015

MGoPoints: 870