Support for Drupal 7 is ending on 5 January 2025—it’s time to migrate to Drupal 10! Learn about the many benefits of Drupal 10 and find migration tools in our resource center.Not sure if this is more of "documentation opportunity" than a bug, but I figured I'd throw it out there and find out.
During my D6->D8 migration testing, I noticed that "story" nodes on D6 (one of the default D6 content types) were migrated into a new "story" content type on D8, not the default "article" content type on D8.
I understand why this happens, but I'm wondering if it should happen. I think most people would expect D6 story nodes to be migrated to D8 article nodes, right?
-mike
Comments
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ultimikeComment #2
mikeryanI think the behavior is correct - we should preserve the content types from D6 as they are, I don't think the fact that the standard D6 profile had a 'story' content type and D7/D8 standard profiles have an 'article' content type means that we must assume the content type name should change in migration. Note that the D6->D7 upgrade process does not alter story content to become articles.
Comment #3
ultimike@mikeryan,
That makes sense - I think we just need to be sure we document this somewhere so users understand it is intentional.
-mike
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ultimikeComment #5
star-szrDocument where? This needs a clearer starting point for it to be a good novice issue IMO :)
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star-szrComment #7
ultimikeThat's a great question - one I don't have a clear answer for. Migrate documentation is mainly developer-centric at this point, but I think we need to add a "what to expect" type of section with details like this one...
-mike
Comment #8
Anonymous (not verified) CreditAttribution: Anonymous commentedI have added this to Known issues with the Drupal 6 -> 8 migrate path and modified it to not be simply "excluded" items, but simply a generic "known issues" for D6->D8.
Updated the tags on that page to target the appropriate audiences. While I was at it I added a note about Views being a core component that will not be migrated within the core package.