Talk proposal authors can currently edit their proposals at any time. But @njl points out that while this is useful during the CFP (so they can keep refining their proposal), and maybe during the first week of the review process (so that they can respond to any final reviewer comments), and in the weeks before they give their talk at PyCon (so that they can make last-minute updates or corrections), it is misleading to allow editing once the review committee has moved on from their personal-response stage and into the serious business of voting, because at that point they will not have time to re-vote every time a proposal is edited.
The site should therefore gain a flag (or interval, with dates?) by which each category of proposal can have editing turned on and off. The result would be that the edit form displays a friendly message explaining why proposals cannot be edited at the moment. Maybe instead of a flag, what we need is just a database field for the message, with the stipulation that editing is open at times when no message is present?
Talk proposal authors can currently edit their proposals at any time. But @njl points out that while this is useful during the CFP (so they can keep refining their proposal), and maybe during the first week of the review process (so that they can respond to any final reviewer comments), and in the weeks before they give their talk at PyCon (so that they can make last-minute updates or corrections), it is misleading to allow editing once the review committee has moved on from their personal-response stage and into the serious business of voting, because at that point they will not have time to re-vote every time a proposal is edited.
The site should therefore gain a flag (or interval, with dates?) by which each category of proposal can have editing turned on and off. The result would be that the edit form displays a friendly message explaining why proposals cannot be edited at the moment. Maybe instead of a flag, what we need is just a database field for the message, with the stipulation that editing is open at times when no message is present?