[Drupal] Hello, new to OSU and Drupal

[Shaw, James]

Thanks, Jakub, for both the warm welcome and insights regarding PHP version control on the Acquia side.

Sounds like early October is the drop date for new versions and so I need to come up with a testing regime to prepare for any potential conflicts.  I definitely have some homework to do on this subject, that’s for sure!

Regards,

Dan

From: Jakub Suchy <jakub.suchy at acquia.com>
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Welcome James!

Disclaimer - I work for Acquia so I can't really do comparisons :)

At Acquia your PHP versions are managed exactly the same as with other providers. At some point we have new versions available and you can switch to them in the interface. I believe other providers do the same. At some point we will remove old versions - and I'll say we are probably more strict about that than others because our compliance posture requires that. Many of our customers require strict compliance paperwork (just like OSU) and keeping old php versions on the platform would make us not compliant. It does create a bit of rush to ensure you move your PHP versions up but IMHO that's the nature of the php ecosystem (which I personally dislike) and is a trade off between convenience and security...

Jakub

On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 8:26 AM Shaw, James via Drupal <drupal at lists.osu.edu<mailto:drupal at lists.osu.edu>> wrote:
Hi,

I’m new to the OSU ecosystem and was looking to network with other Drupal administrators & developers within the university.  My role is mainly as a developer but am tasked with managing our (grc.osu.edu<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/grc.osu.edu__;!!Cjnu1T6GFXg!_hjkX91RHzIVwFhXCQKVQNkEjz5wIGFciM9UL_vfMIQrNl7Azn7f7CZ4IA-S6o4vSEI$>) web assets, which include a few Acquia hosted Drupal 8.x sites.  If anyone is willing to share their thoughts, best practices or what your “go to” resources are, I’m interested in leveraging your experience in the following categories.


•        Is there a Drupal user group and meetings here at the university??

•        Migrating to Drupal 9 – common pain points

•        Managing Drupal modules and theme updates

•        Pantheon vs. Acquia

•        With Acquia, it sounds like I am responsible for managing/ migrating the PHP versions (we are currently on 7.3), is ?

•        Any other things to look out for, that I don’t even know to ask about?


Thanks in advance for any information/ tips you are willing to pass on!

Regards,

Dan Shaw


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