This past week, a group of serious Drupal developers assembled in Cambridge, MA to work on upgrading Drupal.org and infrastructure. This team includes Damien Tournoud, Derek Wright, Neil Drumm, David Strauss, Chad Phillips, Jeremy Andrews, Narayan Newton, Austin Smith, Moshe Weitzman, Dries Buytaert, Susan MacPhee and Gábor Hojtsy, and others helping through virtual channels. The team included performance experts, project module maintainers, an infrastructure manager and others. It was a great fit for our goals.

We worked hard, putting in 12-14 hour days, fleshing out solutions over breakfast, lunch and dinner, leaving a short time to sleep. We took on a big job: updating Drupal.org to Drupal 6, accomplishing as much as possible while in the same room. We managed to run test upgrades multiple times a day, integrating everyone’s work, testing interactions of new items as they became ready.

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