Editorial - "Reject" decision in PhysioNet Editorial disables project content access

[lilehman]

Please allow contributors to (at least temporarily) access their project content after their project has been Rejected.

[bemoody]

I think that the separation between "active", "archived", and "published" projects was a mistake. I think it would be best to have "archived" (split into "rejected" and "withdrawn") and "published" as additional submission states for the project. That would be a major change to the system but would have a lot of benefits.

I do also think there should be a strict time limit (30 days?) after which time the project content is erased. If folks want a backup, back it up somewhere else.

[tompollard]

I think that the separation between "active", "archived", and "published" projects was a mistake. I think it would be best to have "archived" (split into "rejected" and "withdrawn") and "published" as additional submission states for the project.

I agree that our current approach is not optimal! I'm not sure I understand your suggested improvement...we should discuss this at some point.

[bemoody]

Yeah was not clear. The fundamental reason that you can't view rejected projects (or do anything else with them) is that rejecting causes the project to be converted from an ActiveProject object into an ArchivedProject.

And if we wanted to let authors/editors view ArchivedProjects the way they can view ActiveProjects, we'd have to write a bunch of new view functions or else "genericize" the existing ones, either of which would be a pain to implement and maintain.