Contest timings - Githubissues

theSage21 commented 5 years ago

There is no concept of contest timings right now.

Keep record of when the contest is supposed to start and end (maybe store datetime in the database / question set).
make sure that APIs always follow the timings. For example, if time is up then the check api should no longer work.

rishabhKalakoti commented 5 years ago

Can you please elaborate this one? I got some doubts. Like... We will need a moderator who decides the contest timings. Does a contest introduce new questions? Which are available for scoring during contest and later made public. I don't exactly understand how to get it started.

theSage21 commented 5 years ago

Right now questions are picked up from the filesystem when the server starts. Thus the questions may be attempted as soon as the server starts.

This issue needs to implement some sort of time based system that can have active/inactive states.

For example, you might want to say that the contest runs from 12:00 Saturday to 14:00 Saturday. Then you can start receiving participants at 11:00 Saturday and have them go through the instructions / practice questions and at the appointed time the contest suddenly becomes visible.

PyJaipur / PyJudge

Contest timings #103