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Five Years Late, Still On Time: mentalhealthonline.org.au Drupal 8 to 11 journey - Alex Skrypnyk

Five Years Late, Still On Time: mentalhealthonline.org.au Drupal 8 to 11 journey Alex Skrypnyk DrupalSouth Community Day 2025 Canberra Southern Cross Club, Woden, ACT 6th Nov 2026 In 2018, Swinburne University commissioned the Mental Health Online platform — a Drupal-based service delivering evidence-backed programs, therapist–client interactions, and research capabilities. Development was completed the same year on Drupal 8, but for internal and business reasons the platform remained behind closed doors and used only internally for five years. The challenge: keeping a large, complex platform (150+ modules, permissions, messaging, multi-user workflows) production-ready for half a decade without ever going public. Instead of freezing, the platform was continuously maintained and progressively upgraded — from Drupal 8 to 9 to 10. Automated testing and CI/CD pipelines ensured every change was validated, while Behat and PHPUnit coverage safeguarded critical functionality. Rector accelerated code upgrades, with regression tests providing confidence at each step. When the university was ready in 2023, the site launched immediately on Drupal 10 — stable, secure, and future-proof. Since then, the same practices have allowed it to be upgraded further to Drupal 11, proving the long-term sustainability of this approach. During this session, we’ll walk through the processes and tooling that made this possible: how test coverage, CI/CD, and progressive upgrades can keep a complex Drupal project healthy and launch-ready for years — even when real-world delays get in the way. https://drupalsouth.org/drupalsouth-c... Quality recording and editing by https://tomato-elephant-studio.com