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The updated TeX system will skip TeX Live 2014 favor of TeX Live 2016. The integration with TeX Live 2016 is currently undergoing "burn-in" testing against recent submissions in our development environment. Testing is going well, and the anticipated release date of this update is October.
- ARXIVDEV-1561
- status: work in progress
Migrate functions away from old PHP/Tapir codebase and into Perl/Catalyst - Complete replacement of old PHP/Tapir code with more maintainable and better integrated Perl/Catalyst code.
Work to migrate the user administration functionality–the bulk of the tapir codebase--is nearly complete. Several smaller features will still need to be migrated following the migration of the user administration functionality.
- ARXIVDEV-2525
- status: work in progress
Improve ORCID author identifier support - Deprecate the local arXiv author ids in favor of ORCID iDs throughout the arXiv user interface, add ORCID iDs to arXiv API.
As part of work to deprecate the local author ids and support ORCID iDs as the primary form of author identification, the ORCID form now simply displays the page (or provide atom / json) without requiring that an arXiv author id exist and without a redirect to an arXiv author id page. ORCID iDs still need to be added to the arXiv API.
- ARXIVDEV-3133
- status: incompletenot started
Use HTTPS for all of web interface - The web is rapidly moving toward secure communication (using HTTPS, HTTP over SSL) and all arXiv accesses should occur over HTTPS. All existing HTTP URLs should still resolve but they should do this via a redirect to the equivalent HTTPS URL.
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The French mirror was decommissioned earlier this year. The following mirrors (excluding LANL) remain: CN, DE, IN, ES.
- ARXIVDEV-1066
- status: incompletepostponed following discussions in annual SAB meeting
Subject category aliasing for cs/math/stat - There are three subject category merges (aliases) requested in order to better represent subject areas that span major discipline boundaries. Some of these require extra work because there are pre-0704 (old identifiers, see http://arxiv.org/help/arxiv_identifier) submissions where the primary category is becoming an alias and thus the historical primary archive to identifier prefix correspondence will be broken. In the past aliases have been made on an ad-hoc basis and without the need to change existing primary archive designations. We should instead work out and document procedures for such changes. Includes work to create tools for the bulk re-categorization of submissions affected by this and later merges.
- ARXIVDEV-1179
- status: incompletenot started
Streamline moderator and admin interactions - Work with arXiv moderators to streamline their interactions with the system and with arXiv administrators. Will include better handling of warnings from classification and overlap detection systems, better presentation of discussions of issues and more facilities directly in the moderator web interface.
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Work supporting the consolidation of arXiv's many git repositories is complete, but will require further testing before deployment on production machines.
- ARXIVDEV-2752
- status: work in progress
User Support and Moderation
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