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An excellent package for managing the process of paper submission and
paper reviews by a program committee is MyReview. Currently it is not
packaged for Debian but is readily installed.
The first step is to visit https://myreview.lri.fr/ and request a
copy of it. Although the package is released under the GPL the author
requires users to register before being given the instructions to
download the package. Eventually you might get
myreview_1_7_3.tar.gz.
For the simplest of installations, just untar the package into
/var/www/ to create /var/www/myreview/. You could
untar it anywhere and create a symbolic link if you prefer. You will
probably need to change all the files to be owned by www-data
so that the web server can fully control the files:
Any problem you have along the way with installing the package will
probably be due to permissions associated with any of the files in the
package. This is a little ugly and could be fixed with proper
packaging. But some of the changes that you might find useful include:
You need to ensure you are running PHP version 4 (install the
packages: libapache-mod-php4
php4-mysql). For
version 1 of apache run the apache configure to ensure php4 is chosen
as a module:
Also, have a look at /etc/apache/httpd.conf to ensure php4
support is enabled:
#
# And for PHP 4.x, use:
#
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
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If you have just changed the contents of
/etc/apache/httpd.conf you will need to restart the server to
have the changes take effect:
MyReview stores all of its data in MySQL, so ensure you have
mysql-client
and mysql-server
installed and
the root password to MySQL properly initialised (see
Section 64 for details). Then from inside
/var/www/myreview initialise the MySQL database and two users
for MyReview:
Now visit https://localhost/myreview and initialise the
configuration. From the web interface you can tune most of the
package, including the look of all of the web pages and the text of
the web pages and email messages.
Some limitations:
- In the review form would like to record who the reviewer was, if
not the PC member themselves.
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