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In late 2015 and 2016 a new set of features was added to the admin interfaces that allow the admins to work with category proposals on submissions. The goal of this was to explicitly codify decisions about categories as data and to use it to efficiently deal with redundant category proposals or crosses.
These features were originally rolled out to admins only so feedback and refinements could be made before rolling it out to moderators. The functionality was made available to the moderators in late August 2016.
- ARXIVDEV-3366
- status: Completecomplete
Update, reorganize and better document the TeX system - TeX is currently a central component of our article processing, approximately 85% of submissions are TeX or PDFTeX source. We need to update our TeX installation, improving our packaging so that it can more easily be deployed and updated, better documenting our installation, and increasing experience within the current development team. We need to update the TeX binaries to the current version of TeX Live (currently TeX Live 2011, should use 2014), update our set of style files (last update was 2011), and also update our ghostscript installation.
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 new recent submissions in our development environment. Testing is going well, and the anticipated release date of this update is by the end of October.
- ARXIVDEV-1561
- status: 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: 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: in progress
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.
HTTPS was enabled site-wide in March 2016. What remains is altering the configuration to redirect all requests to HTTPS.
- ARXIVDEV-3133
- status: in progress (partially complete)
Refine process for addition of overlap notices - Following the September 2015 recommendation of the Scientific Advisory Board, we will implement a process to put submissions on hold when overlap with other articles is detected by Paul Ginsparg's system. This will provide authors an opportunity to respond to warnings before overlap notices are added.
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