Log reviewers response

[MrRob100]

A function so that editors can log the response decision from reviewers - e.g if the reviewer emails the editor rather than logs it themselves in OJS. A 'Log Response' response will show on a review item in the editorial workflow if a review confirmation hasn't already been made.

[MrRob100]

@Devika008 Can you take a quick look on this design please

[Devika008]

Hello Rob,

Could you allow me time till Monday to get back on this.

[Devika008]

Hello Rob,

Everything looks good but just made modifications on the first screen based on some design principles I follow through all designs. Please review and let me know if you are okay with it.

[asmecher]

Just a heads-up: While I'm not opposed to adding this feature (reviewer communications are always going to be delicate and need extra accommodation to avoid losing reviewers), this does go counter to our general strategy of reducing the number of actions an administrative user (e.g. a journal editor or manager) can take on a third party's behalf (e.g. a reviewer).

Our general approach is to make more use of invitations that propose changes to a 3rd party but allow them to accept/reject them.

In this case, that's what we already have -- reviewers receive an email inviting them to participate, and they can either accept or reject. Reviewers will still tend sometimes to reply to emails rather than reading the instructions, so there's a need to accommodate that.

My only alternative idea so far has been to allow OJS to receive emails from reviewers directly, and parse out their intentions. However, parsing "thanks, but not this time" accurately into a "decline" is not going to be easy, so I think we're left with the spec here as a next-best!