Professorial Pay Review (PPR)¶
This page gives an overview of the PPR applications, describing their current status, where and how they are developed and deployed, and who is responsible for maintaining them.
Service Description¶
The PPR is a bi-annual process to allow University professors to submit review documents with or without pay review applications.
Service Status¶
The future of these PPR applications is unknown. The last PPR using this system was completed in 2022. Some of the originally designed features have been transferred to the Senior Academic Promotion (SAP) project, now known as Academic Career Pathway (ACP).
Contact¶
Issues discovered in the service or new feature requests should be opened as GitLab issues in the application repository.
Environments¶
The PPR service is currently deployed to the following environments:
| Name | URL | Supporting VMs |
|---|---|---|
| Production | ||
| Web Server | spt-live-web1.internal.admin.cam.ac.uk | |
| Application Server | spt-live-app1.internal.admin.cam.ac.uk | |
| Database | spt-live-db1.internal.admin.cam.ac.uk | |
| Staging | ||
| Web Server | spt-test-web1.internal.admin.cam.ac.uk | |
| Application Server | spt-test-app1.internal.admin.cam.ac.uk | |
| Database | spt-test-db1.internal.admin.cam.ac.uk |
Source code¶
Source code for both the Application Submission and SAP Submission applications can be found in GitLab PPR 2022.
Technologies used¶
The following gives an overview of the technologies which PPR is built on.
| Category | Language | Framework(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Application Submission | C# 6 | ASP.NET 4 |
| SAP Submission | C# 6 | SharePoint Server-side Object Model |
Operational documentation¶
Documentation for development and deployment is available at GitLab PPR 2022
Service Management and tech lead¶
The Service Owner for PPR is TBA.
The Service Manager for PPR is TBA.
The Tech Lead for PPR is TBA.
The following engineer has operational experience with PPR and is able to respond to support requests or incidents: