[Termtools] When to start the competition?

[Simon Bailey]

hi,

> Suggestions? I asked yesterday whether a distance between
> deadline for submission and start of competition is needed at all.
>
>
> I read Simon's answer as "technically, it's not needed".

the minimum deadline should be about 5mins to be on the safe side

> So I suggest to keep it short - (re-)submission of an
> implementation should be possible until one hour (or less)
> before the start of competition.

one hour would be a good deadline.

> Simon: would that be feasible for the midnight deadline?
> (I assume it's easy when you're in the office)

i've been working on setting up a way automagically schedule a  
competition start and also to enforce a submission deadline x hours  
before the scheduled start. this will be needed in future if the  
competition goes into a monthly/bi-monthly/whenever cycle or to  
schedule full re-runs

regards,
sb
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