152 What to Do About Drupal 6 End of Life on Feb 24th 2016 with David Snopek - Modules Unraveled Podcast

## 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as “unsupported” on Drupal.org - which will mean the ‘update’ module will start telling you that ALL your modules are out-of-date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?