[HPSG-L] HPSG proceedings 2024

[Stefan Müller]

Hi everybody,

This is an email to inform you about the status of the HPSG 2024 
proceedings. Short story: They are completed for a long time now but 
because of technical difficulties they cannot be imported into the 
publishing system OJS.

Long story:

For the first time since 2003 the HPSG proceedings will appear in the 
year after the proceedings, normally they were out in November or December.

This is partly due to the fact that there is an additional reviewing 
step now. This costs time since it also involves revisions. However the 
plan was to be done with this in 2024. But apart from difficulties with 
the new publication mode, there were technical difficulties.

Some history:

In the early years of editing the proceedings everything was easy. I had 
access to the machine where the files for CSLI Pubs were hosted and 
copied everything there by ssh copy. Effort here: put files in place, 
compile, check, type "make public".

Over the years Stanford University got more and more restrictive as far 
as access was concerned. The CSLI machine was closed off, access to the 
central machines was only possible with sponsored accounts. The reply 
times for renewals of sponsored accounts got longer and the times for 
which access was granted got shorter. We finally decided to move the 
proceedings elsewhere. This is why we have Open Journal System now. 
Publishing the proceedings means that I create an XML file, which has to 
be imported in Frankfurt/M. I cannot do this myself. This causes delays 
and slows down turnaround. Now there was a main change in infrastructure 
and an update of php and OJS and things do not work any longer.

Only thing I can do: Wait and be patient.

In principle we could go back to the old mode: find a webserver 
somewhere and I just create the webpages via scripts and copy everything 
there. The advantage of the OJS solution is that it can be used for 
doing the reviewing process of the revisions and that people can use it 
once I retire (10 years from now).

Best wishes

     Stefan, frustrated about this world getting more and more restricted