Email Digest

[gmeben]

There has been a desire for a summary of submission activity sent to users via email, called an "email digest." Currently, there's no such thing in Pilcrow.

Add email digests to Pilcrow. Users associated with a submission should receive email digests at a specified time interval whenever a submission is updated. They should not be sent if there has been no new activity. This kind of activity should be included:

• status changes
• newly added inline comments
• newly added overall comments

Users should be able to access a settings page where they can set their preferences of what to be included in email digests and how frequently they are sent.

Review Checklist

• Necessary backend unit testing has been added
• Necessary frontend unit testing has been added
• Necessary integration testing has been added
• Documentation has been updated to reflect new changes

Accessibility Checklist

• No new color contrast issues are introduced
• Changed text has a font size of at least 16px
• Changed text uses plain language

[gmeben]

Question: What other kinds of activity should this email digest capture?

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[gmeben]

Answer: After discussing, we determined that these digests could also include assignments of reviewers. There may be more data that publications may want.

There may also be different kinds of digests depending upon user role. For example, coordinators may need/want to know all the reviews that are assigned to reviewers of reviews they are coordinating, which may not be useful information for submitters.

We'll settle for now to include what's described (status change, comments) and extend later as needed.