Outage Details:
Date/Time: Saturday March 22, 2014 8:00am - Noon (The upgrade was completeed on schedule)
Type: Scheduled
Impacted Services: Commons - including many divisional/group home pages, including IT, Facilities, HR, Nuclear Sciences, and Physics.
Background
Our institutional wiki (commons.lbl.gov) is due for an upgrade. After some significant challenges with the migration process from our current version (Confluence 4.2.13) to the most recent (Confluence 5.4.3) - we are finally able to test the results. There are some layout changes that will impact all spaces on the wiki. Each space that uses the default Confluence Theme will now have a left sidebar for page navigation. While it is adjustable (can be collapsed when users need more space for the page content), it is not an option. As a example, the new look for our Google Help Site (lbl.gov/google) will change to the image you see below.
There are also some minor changes to fonts and spacing - but nothing that impacts the utilization of the wiki from what we observe. Some spaces on commons use special themes using the themebuilder product. We think that most of the migration problems have been solved and that spaces that use this theme will not have major impacts. The IT and Facilities division web sites are examples.
Next Steps
We will be reaching out to space owners next week - but anyone can preview the results by going to a test site available only at the lab (commons-test.lbl.gov). Note: you will have to approve web access to the site because we do not have a well known "certificate" on the test site - so your browser will give you a warning. (Chrome will let you bypass this warning, others may not without modification to security settings)
If we do not experience any show stoppers while we work with our customers, we plan to do the upgrade Saturday morning, March 22. The outage window will be from 8am to noon.
