Beginning the Skyportal to Drupal Migration

SkyPortal will always hold a special place in my heart as the first "open source" project I actively contributed to. It was much easier to get a site up and going for a small group of people (guild sites were my specialty) than many other systems. Even though PHP hosting is cheaper and easier to come by, SkyPortal was my first choice because it was the best platform.

Times have changed and it's still hard to find a package with as many features out of the box as SkyPortal. I've decided to hop on the bandwagon of porting OGFB to Drupal since I happen to be in the unique position of knowing Skyportal and ASP development and Drupal and PHP development quite well.

I've goal is to have a "One Click" install that imports all your SkyPortal data and gives you a complete website with similar (and in most cases better) functionality. I've decided to call this project Druportal and will be keeping my development open sourced and freely available to all who wish to participate. You can find my most recent code at http://github.com/rocketeerbkw/druportal.

I'll depend on the community in large part to help decide which modules must be included and how they should be setup to make things feature complete. I'd like to take a iterative approach to this development and release small, feature-complete revisions and test them with imports and upgrades along the way.

I haven't used the features module very much in the past, but I imagine it will be vital to this project. I'd love to get a feature server up somewhere that will facilitate the install/upgrade process of the different sections/features of Druportal

I'll start with the user, group and config imports and work my way up from there following the importance guidelines set by Doc.

I haven't even thought about theme porting yet, I'd love to get into a discussion around that as well