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As always, the best way to test out how things are working is to get busy and start using them. And so far the results of building with Drutopia are feeling pretty positive.

Since starting a farm is a monumental task, we needed to make sure that the website was easy to get set up and easy to maintain going forward.

Change can often be a hard thing for groups—even progressive groups.  Getting a staff team to willingly adopt new software or a new website can be challenging.  Especially for staff who always feel a shortage of time in getting the important work done.

Any way you do it, upgrading an organizational website to a new major version of Drupal - for example, from Drupal 5 or 6 to Drupal 7 - is a significant task.

Get as much as you can out of existing solutions. Often, this means adjusting expectations or adopting different solutions for the same problems.

In a recent blog post, Drupal 8 co-maintainer Alex Pott highlighted a seismic shift in Drupal that's mostly slipped under the radar. In Drupal 8, he wrote, "sites own their configuration, not modules".

This is part two of a series on configuration management challenges in Durpal 8. Part 1 looked at challenges for small sites and distriubtions.