Can you perhaps be a little clearer on this? What I would say is that perhaps one needs to make a clone of their current 7.0.9 site, complete with all modules and customisations, including of course a clone of the database. Then upgrade that clone site to see what breaks. I don't think setting up 7.1 and then trying to get the customisations in place and modules in place would be the correct way to go.
I think the gist of the question was if one could set up a Dolphin 7.1 and then migrate see more the 7.0.9 database over to the new 7.1 site. Will there be a database migration tool that can be used to migrate a Dolphin 7.0.9 database structure to the Dolphin 7.1 database structure?
It will not be migration script - It will be upgrade script.
If you want to try a safe upgrade - make a copy of your site, apply upgrade patch, test it, if everything is fine - apply upgrade patch to the live site.
I think the gist of the question was if one could set up a Dolphin 7.1 and then migrate see more
If you want to try a safe upgrade - make a copy of your site, apply upgrade patch, test it, if everything is fine - apply upgrade patch to the live site.
We have setup a test clone of our site and would like to test 7.1.