Dear DhOers,
At long last, Manish Yadav says he is about ready to upgrade the Dharma Overground's Liferay platform to version 6.2 from 5.2.2.
During that time, it will be down for about 9 hours, he thinks, and then we will need to test it, so presume at least 12 hours or so. When exactly that will happen I am not sure, but I will keep you posted here. If you find the DhO site available then, anything you post will not show up on the new site unless we manually move it, meaning it might not show up at all, given resources available.
We should have some increased functionality related to wiki author controls and other things, as well as increased compatibility with mobile devices such as phones and tablets and the ability to use the latest plugins, etc. should we choose.
The theme will be all
cattywumpus during this time and until someone upgrades it. My sister is considering it, but I haven't heard back from her, so I may need a volunteer to get it back to something like it was, or a more updated version that still includes the logo. Liferay uses CSS for those who are curious. I would greatly appreciate any help you can lend and vision and creativity you can bring to make the theme something that is at once inviting, easy on the eyes, and yet keeps with the basic feel of the DhO so that people will recognize it. I could pay a bit to someone if they needed the paid time to make it happen.
Please go on the staging server if you are curious and play around to make sure you can log on and things are working properly. The link is
here. If you find anything that doesn't work or you can't log in, post your thoughts here.
I am extremely grateful to Manish for all of his work on this.
Further updates will appear here.
Daniel