Migrating BeWelcome to Drupal

This is an overview of the project to migrate BeWelcome to Drupal.

Migration

Main things to migrate:

• users
• page-like content:
  • FAQ => faq content type (multicrud?)
  • tour =>

User fields

• user/register should show more than username/password

Translation

Drupal is based on "everything is English". We would prefer keyword-based translations. A solution would be creating another language: "real English" or something and rename "English" to "coder English" or "Drupal English".

Drupal can't show translation links, but it might be possible to create a module for that.

Privacy

Waiting for D7 modules:

• CCK Private Fields?

Roles

• developer
• support
• editor
• translator

..

Deployment

• Deployment strategies. We want to have as much as possible to be code-based, but some modules really love the database and auto-increment.

Performance

• Page load speed
• Scalability

People

• guaka
• lemonhead

Drupal 7

We have chosen to start right away with Drupal 7.

Con

• Many modules aren't ready yet.
• There are still some bugs.

Pro

• No need to upgrade to D7 ;)
• D7 has many good things in core that we want (such as user fields)