First, a big round of thanks and applause for the scores of folks who played a part in making Drupal 6 a reality and such an improvement to the design, architecture and usability.
Quick Reference Links
Drupal 6 Official Release Announcement
Drupal 6 Upgrade Instructions
Drupal 6 Upgrade Video Tutorial
Drupal 6 New Installation Instructions
Drupal 6 New Installation Video Tutorial
Converting Modules
One of the best additions is the Coder module. This little guy addresses primarily three areas of interest.
- Drupal Coding Standards
- Module conversion recommendation
- Security/Performance
I have got to say it sure is nice to have a too that quickly can point a maintainer or contributor at key areas to look at for migrating a module to the next release. Really, the lack of 5.x modules available for 6.x is what will keep folks from upgrading existing sites straight away.
I am of the opinion that with this Coder module and a little elbow grease we can help users of Drupal to more quickly adopt 6.x once we get more modules ready for the upgrade.