PART 2: Hobobiker Rides Again: Plan It, Test It, Migrate It — The Last Ride: Sending a Drupal Site into Retirement
Not every old Drupal site needs an upgrade. Some just need a dignified retirement. Randy has archived plenty of legacy sites as static HTML, and this time Claude is doing the work. We'll give Claude a proven strategy (Lullabot's "Sending a Drupal Site into Retirement"), clear success criteria, and the tests from the previous session. Then we'll see whether it can turn hobobiker.com into a static site that holds up, all within an hour and in a way everyone watching can follow. This is a practical use case for anyone with an aging site that still has content worth keeping.
This is PART 2: Hobobiker Rides Again: Plan It, Test It, Migrate It
After Jamie Abrahams showed us a static-site-to-Drupal CMS migration with evals, DDEV lead maintainer Randy Fay tried the approach on his own very old Drupal 6 site, hobobiker.com. The results made one thing clear: Claude does its best work with a guided plan, a clear view of the source and destination, and success criteria it must prove it has met. In this three-part live series, Randy and the AI Learners Club take hobobiker.com on two different journeys. One ends in static HTML and the other in Drupal 11, and both are checked against the same set of tests. These are working sessions, so bring your questions, suggestions, and opinions. The peanut gallery is part of the show.
Stay tuned for PART 3: The Long Haul: Planning and Running a Drupal 6 to Drupal 11 Migration!