Reminder for reviewers that the review is due soon

fgnievinski · March 31, 2019, 9:59pm

The reminder for reviewers has been requested before:

The reminder for authors is not the same issue but is related;
it also has an open issue ticket, reason why I brought it up:

github.com/pkp/pkp-lib

Add revision due dates and email reminders

opened 03:52PM - 04 Aug 17 UTC

ajnyga

Enhancement:3:Major Community:2:Priority Hosting

Some of our journals have asked for a feature where the editor can send reminder…s to authors regarding the revisions of their articles. Basically the editor would define a default time limit for revisions like with the review requests. If the author takes more time than the defined time limit to return a revision of her paper, the system will send a "gentle reminder". Also, manual reminders should be possible. The feature has been discussed at the forum https://forum.pkp.sfu.ca/t/ojs-can-ojs-send-automatic-reminder-emails-to-authors-whose-article-still-needs-revisions/16873 There are few key questions here (probably not all of them at this point): 1. How/where should we save the data regarding: a) how many weeks before automatic reminder (journal_settings) b) when is the revision due (submissions, submission_settings, something totally new?) c) when was the author reminded (submissions, submission_settings, something totally new?) d) was the reminder automatic? 2. Should this data be saved separately for each revision request? Or should the old data (revision due, date reminded etc.) be erased when a new revision is requested? 3. Should there be a totally new database table and functions for generic reminders which could be used for both review reminders and revision reminders, and possibly some other workflow reminders as well? 4. @asmecher had a comment regarding connected with the email templates, go ahead.