Technology
## Drupal 6 End of Live* What does Drupal 6 EOL mean?* When is Drupal 6’s End-Of-Life (EOL)? * February 24th* Why is support for Drupal 6 being dropped by the Drupal project in the first place? (ie. why does our community even do this?) * What makes Drupal 6’s End-of-Life (EOL) different than previous ones (ie. Drupal 5)?* What, specifically, will happen after February 24th? * All D6 modules will be marked as “unsupported” on Drupal.org - which will mean the ‘update’ module will start telling you that ALL your modules are out-of-date * Also, the status information that the ‘update’ module uses could go away at any time - so, you’ll no longer be able to rely on that in general (myDropWizard or another vendor MAY create a replacement for the ‘update’ module…) * The Drupal security team will no longer be making Security Advisories (or coordinating security releases) * In general, most module maintainers will no longer pay attention to Drupal 6 issues and will stop making new releases* What should people with Drupal 6 sites do? * Archive the site, or * Plan upgrade, and * If you can’t upgrade by February 24th, buy Drupal 6 Long-Term Support from one of the “official” vendors: * https://www.drupal.org/node/2646980* What makes the “official” vendors special (vs. any other vendor)? * Get confidential information from Drupal security team * Agree to follow security team processes and release all security patches publicly * Were vetted by the Drupal security team* How will the Drupal 6 LTS work? * Same process as security team - but work done by vendors rather than security team * Will publish patches on the D6LTS project: * https://www.drupal.org/project/d6lts * Likely, but not 100% decided: * Announce new patches on the D6LTS issue queue * Make new Pressflow 6 releases with the Drupal core patches* So, can the community get this without working with a vendor? * Yes! * But each vendor only supporting those modules their customers depend on * And what about security issues that hackers find first?* What does myDropWizard.com do? And how is your offer different than the other vendors? * “myDropWizard.com provides 24/7 support and maintenance from Drupal experts for a fixed monthly fee. We keep your site online, up-to-date and secure!” * Our Drupal 6 Long-Term Support offer: * http://www.mydropwizard.com/drupal-6-lts * making security fixes * fixing bugs * performing one-off maintenance and support tasks on request * getting your site back online in the case of an outage, and * remediation if your site gets hacked. * Basically, keep your site online and secure until you’re ready to upgrade - and we can help with a D7 or D8 upgrade as well* Technical questions about how we do what we do?* Your offering includes a whole bunch of stuff! Why don’t you have a “security updates only” offering?