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HotCRP conference review software
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feature request: set minimal submission number (as a relatively simple way to support revise-resubmit) #299

Open dants opened 1 year ago

dants commented 1 year ago

In continuation to issue https://github.com/kohler/hotcrp/issues/298, which probably requires a lot of work and thus might be unrealistic, it seems like the following may be an easier way to provide some minimal support for the concept of revise-resubmit between consecutive review cycles:

  1. Allow an administrator to set the minimal paper number allocated to submissions.

  2. Allow an administrator to change the number of a new submission to another number.

This way, the minimal paper number of Cycle 2 can be set to be greater than all the submission numbers of Cycle 1. Then, when a revise-resubmit paper is submitted to Cycle 2, the admin can change its number to be its previous number from Cycle 1.

(The credit for this idea belongs to Mike Swift.)

kohler commented 1 year ago

Why is it important that the revise-and-resubmit from cycle 1 needs the same number in cycle 2

dants commented 1 year ago

If the submission ID is made unique across cycles (for all submissions, not just revise-resubmit), it would make searching for a specific submission easier, allowing us to use the same query across HotCRP instances as well as in our email.