Reporter¶
[Team | Jackson Team] [Tech Lead | TBC] [Service Owner | TBC] [Service Manager | TBC] [Product Manager | TBC]
Service Description¶
The Cambridge University Reporter is the University's journal of official business and the primary means through which official information and governance-related matters are conveyed by the University to its members and the wider community.
Ordinary issues of the Reporter are published weekly in term time with Special issues published at set times throughout the year.
Service Status¶
The Reporter site is currently live.
Contact¶
Technical queries and support should be directed to uis-devops-division@lists.cam.ac.uk and will be picked up by a member of the team working on the service.
Issues discovered in the service or new feature requests should be opened as GitLab issues.
Non-technical and end-user queries relating to pages and content should be directed to one of the following:
The University Draftsman can comment on content issues:
All the pages are processed and maintained by the Reporter Editors:
Environments¶
The Reporter is currently deployed to the following environments:
| Name | URL | Supporting VMs |
|---|---|---|
| Production | https://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/2022-23/weekly/ https://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/2022-23/special/ |
web-rso-live1.srv.uis.private.cam.ac.uk web-rso-live2.srv.uis.private.cam.ac.uk |
| Staging / Development | http://dev.admin.internal.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/2022-23/weekly http://dev.admin.internal.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/2022-23/special |
web-rso-dev1.srv.uis.private.cam.ac.uk |
Note: XML source files need to be manually added to development so they can be processed using
the xml converter to produce the static html files which are then edited, verified, and then copied
to production using various bash scripts located on the development server.
Source code¶
The Reporter development server website source code can be found on GitLab (under construction).
Notable folders on development and production servers¶
The XML Converter is located on the development server:
web-rso-dev1:/home/webadmin/web/reporter/xml-converter
The website is located on the development and production servers:
web-rso-*:/home/webadmin/web/globalweb-rso-*:/home/webadmin/web/reporter
The scripts are located on the development server:
web-rso-dev1:/home/webadmin/scripts
Technologies used¶
XML Converter
- Java
- XML
- XSLT
Website
- Apache with ucam_webauth module
- CGI / Perl
- HTML, CSS, JS
Operational documentation¶
The original documentation is no longer available. New documentation will be added here.
Other operational documentation¶
The Reporter is laid out as a print publication using Adobe InDesign. XML is exported, which this software then processes to produce the corresponding web pages automatically (https://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/2022-23/weekly/ etc.)
There is also an overarching Drupal element (https://www.reporter.admin.cam.ac.uk) which is maintained separately.
All the pages are processed and maintained by the Reporter Editors.
Service Management¶
The Team responsible for this service is Jackson Team.
The Tech Lead for this service is TBC.
The Service Owner for this service is TBC.
The Service Manager for this service is TBC.
The Product Manager for this service is TBC.
The following engineers have operational experience with this service and are able to respond to support requests or incidents: