This site is now running on Drupal 6. It was a useful exercise in finding out how much pain there would be to upgrade some of my customers sites.

The good news is that it is relatively straight-forward. But, unfortunately, contributors are being a bit slow at getting on-board with Drupal 6. This site uses a custom theme, and about 8 contributed modules.

Of those 8 contributed modules, only 4 have fully released Drupal 6 versions. One I am temporarily doing without (feedburner), one I have replaced with the views module (the monthly archive), one is running with a bunch of patches as the main contributor is working on other stuff at the moment and the final (Gallery) I have dropped altogether (see here).

I think my existing customer may still be best advised to wait a while, but new customers I will try and get to use it.

Theming in particular is much easier, with a much more intuitive plug-in template system.

It was a useful test of my new version control system, using GIT