15min
In 2024 my colleagues at LII and I embarked on a daunting mission - migrating our Content Management System from Drupal version 7 to version 10. We needed to move tens of thousands of pages of content across dozens of collections, with many active user accounts, custom modules, and more while keeping our ability to generate static HTML content from our CMS. To a great extent we succeeded (with a few hiccups, to be sure!), with much help from our friends who developed the Migrate module from Drupal. We'll give an update on the tooling that enabled our migration, what we considered along the way, and how Drupal 10 fits into our web stack these days. This talk will describe the state of Drupal as a CMS for legal informatics, the history of its use at LII (17 years on Drupal and counting), and how we see the efforts of the Drupal developers making it a bit easier to migrate these days. We'll recall Elmer Masters' talk on this topic from CALI 2023 in Philadelphia, what we learned from his experience, and how the state of migrating has changed in the interim.