Re: tanay.co.in: Drupal 7 to Drupal 8 Migration - 101 and Observations [feedly]

[Adam Sanchez]

parece que es sencillo actualizar de D7 a D8, ver articulo debajo.

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 8:22 AM, Adam Sanchez <a.san...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> tanay.co.in: Drupal 7 to Drupal 8 Migration - 101 and Observations
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> So, Drupal 8 has been out. And Migrate framework is now part of core! I
> haven’t had a chance to try out a D7->D8 migration so far. Knowing that this
> would be something I might do probably a hundred times in the coming couple
> of years, I thought of giving it a try.
>
> I will now attempt to migrate this current Drupal 7 website
> (www.tanay.co.in) to Drupal 8. I shall be taking the MigrateUpgrade-UI path
> (than the drush path) as described on https://www.drupal.org/node/2257723 .
> I don’t expect a full-replica of my current site on D8 at the end of this
> attempt, but we shall take a look at what worked, what didn’t work.
>
> I used 8.0.2 version of Drupal core, and 8.x-1.x-dev release of Migrate
> Upgrade module.
>
> These observations might probably NOT reflect the current state of the
> Migrate Upgrade module. It is highly likely that the module performs better
> than what is observed below - ie, Some issues noticed in this attempt might
> have already been fixed in the Migrate Upgrade Module. Chances are also
> high that I missed some steps or screwed up something.
>
> Download and enable the migrate_upgrade module
>
> Navigate to the /upgrade path on your website
>
> Populate the Source SQL details and the site url to fetch files from
>
> This will show you a list of available and missing upgrade paths.
>
> Hit the “Perform Upgrade” button. Fingers Crossed!
>
> Still running after 5 mins.. Drupal seems to be doing some serious loads of
> stuff here..
>
> While I was waiting, I thought of checking out the sites/default/files
> folder on my Drupal 8 site. As I assumed nodes are now being migrated,
> probably the assets are being fetched. In which case, the
> sites/default/files should be filling up. Yep, it indeed is being
> populated..
>
> Let’s check out what is up with the Drupal 8 Database. Yay! It is being
> populated as well!
>
> Well, interesting to see that the node table on D8 doesn’t have the title
> column. I wonder where the titles sit now in D8. There doesn’t seem to be
> any node_title, node_field_title tables.. Well there seems to be a new table
> here though. It is node_field_data which seems to hold the titles of the
> nodes!
>
> Hello there node_field_data table! Good to see you. I am sure we are going
> to bump into each other many times in the coming days!
>
> Cool. Let’s switch back to the browser tab where the upgrade was running and
> see how things are going.
>
> Wow,. here we go! The upgrade is now complete.
>
> First Look at the website:
>
> The migration has definitely surprised me. I was expecting a lot of broken
> stuff. But it already looks good. The site seems to have all the content
> that I care about. I was surprises to see that some of the blocks of static
> markup, disqus comments that I had at various positions on the D7 site were
> migrated as-is into almost similar positions on the D8 site. I never
> expected that to be the case! I was expecting just the nodes and terms being
> moved around. THIS IS AMAZING so far...
>
>
>
> Blocks were auto-migrated!
>
> URL Aliases also seem to have come through fine!
>
> Let’s edit a node and see how it looks…
>
> Term References look good!
>
> Although I am not sure if this was the case with only the default “tags”
> vocabulary. Probably even custom term reference fields added to custom types
> also get migrated just fine. Unfortunately, I don’t have such custom term
> reference field on my site to verify this.
>
> All the content types look good!
>
> This is amazing that all the content types were just re-created by D8 using
> their structures from D7, at the click of a button!
>
> Let’s open a content type, both in D7 and D8 and see how they compare. I am
> taking the most used content type on my site - The Article content type that
> I have got, which I use to post blog posts like this one.
>
> D7:
>
> D8:
>
> Discounting Meta Tags field (that came from a contrib module), all fields
> look good.
>
>
>
> The Image Field Attachments are broken :-(
>
> The content type “article” had an image field and a file field. The file
> field rarely had any files attached but the image field had an image for
> every blog post. So, what happened to these image attachments:
>
> The Image field was created on the D8 content type automatically by Drupal
>
> The files were fetched and copied from the source site into the D8
> sites/default/files folder
>
> An entry was created for each file in the D8 site files table and these
> files can be managed from “admin/content/files” on the D8 site.
>
> But the images were NOT attached by the migration to the relevant nodes
>
> Let’s see how good things are. Before we check out how things are on the new
> D8 site with the old content from D7, here are a few things I am interested
> in:
>
> The content (nodes) obviously
>
> The term references (I don’t have any node references. So I am not bothered
> about it right now)
>
> Meta Tags (from the D7 Metatags module). This has 2 items of importance
>
> Checking if these tags themselves are migrated. AFAIR, I haven’t used the
> metatags module to store any per-node keywords on the module’s storage but
> the meta-tags are made to appear on the node pages using terms from a term
> reference field attached. So, irrespective of the migration path of metatags
> module the terms themselves would probably have been migrated into the D8
> site if term reference migration worked on #b above
>
> The display of the metatags in the markup - I am not much bothered about
> them at this point of time. I don’t expect the upgrade to have ported the
> contrib metatag module configuration as well. Should be good as long as I
> have the tags available somewhere on the D8 site. I will probably configure
> the module afresh on the D8 site using tokens similar to those used on the
> D7 site
>
> Considering the use of taxonomy for metatags, I could probably discount
> metatags in defining if the migration was any useful.
>
>
>
> Images (Each blog post has an image attached to it on an image field). Also,
> each blog post has a large number of images embedded in the markup (Usually
> pasted into the WYSIWIG and retrieved automatically by Drupal 7 using
> https://www.drupal.org/project/get_image module)
>
> URL Aliases / Clean Urls
>
> As such these would be the items I would care about in the migration and see
> how Drupal 8 at its current state, using the migrate_upgrade path of
> migration has fared on these items - Content, Term References, Images, Url
> Aliases
>
> Content
>
> Was well-migrated. Content types were auto-created on D8 by migration. All
> nodes were migrated without skipping any. Most of the field and content type
> display configuration was replicated on the D8 site.
>
> References
>
> Looks good. There was only one vocabulary. It was replicated on D8 and all
> terms were auto-migrated.
>
> Images
>
> The Image field was created on the D8 content type automatically by Drupal
>
> The files were fetched and copied from the source site into the D8
> sites/default/files folder
>
> An entry was created for each file in the D8 site files table and these
> files can be managed from “admin/content/files” on the D8 site.
>
> But the images were NOT attached by the migration to the relevant nodes
>
> Clean Urls / Aliases
>
> Migrated
>
> NOTE: I am not referring to the pathauto settings. But the existing
> (generated) aliases for existing nodes were migrated.
>
> Site Configuration
>
> This was the item where I was surprised the most. Blocks, Block
> Configuration, Content type Configuration (Comments etc), Site-wide
> configuration (Image Styles) were migrated from the source D7 site to D8
> without any effect.
>
> Overall, the migration has surprised me. The only significant issue that
> stood out for me was that the images were not attached to the nodes. There
> were a couple of smaller issues that I could stumble upon - Like, some of
> the migrated image styles had the labels missing. I am pretty sure the issue
> with the image field attachments is logged somewhere on the Issue queue of
> core or migrate_upgrade module, wherever it fits best. I haven’t verified
> that. I will probably check that out later.
>
> Thumbnail Image used on Listing - D7 to D8 - is courtesy of Drupalize.me
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