One of the advantages of choosing the Community Forge platform is that it's built using Drupal. Drupal is open-source: anyone who wants to can contribute to diversifying and improving the tool. Drupal is made up of a community of half a million members and several thousand companies who, together, guarantee the durability, innovation and fluidity of the interface. In addition to the support we receive from Community Forge, we can also rely on the very active Drupal community. For French-speaking users who want to find out more, go to http://drupal.org/
Some users of the interface created by Community Forge wonder why they regularly have to leave a version of Drupal with which they are satisfied in order to upgrade to a new version.
An IT tool that doesn't evolve quickly becomes obsolete and, what's more problematic, offers security flaws that can jeopardise all your work. We are therefore ‘condemned’ to constantly upgrade our tools.
Matthew, the software engineer who built Hamlets on a voluntary basis, with support from Phil and George who keep the server ticking over, installs security updates regularly.
Community Forge works as a team! Some share their extensive IT skills to create the code needed to display the specific pages we need or to manage the servers that host our sites and the databases linked to them.
Others agree to be on the front line to test the work of the first team.
Matthew is an English speaker, so the sites are produced in English. Volunteer translators therefore work to translate the interface into French (as well as German, Spanish and Greek) whenever changes are made.
How can I tell which version of Drupal our site is running on?
Since May 2015, all our sites have been running Drupal 7, and 2025 they will upgrade to drupal 11.