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+# Sixfold Voting Website (`app.sixfold.org`)
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+This repository contains the code for `app.sixfold.org`, the domain used for Sixfold's quarterly competitions.
+
+## Task List
+
+Here are planned updates to the code, in no particular order:
+
+- Migrate from one SQLite database to a per-account database model
+- Create database schema files
+- Migrate all timestamps to ISO 8601
+- Determine why PayPal transaction IDs are sometimes not processed when uploading submissions
+- Implement the manuscript assignment process
+- Implement the voting process
+- Allow participants to upload a photo and add links to their profile
+- Move avatars to database BLOB storage
+- Allow participants to download their data
+- General code style or pattern cleanup
+- Implement pooling so the testing domain can live on the same server as the production site
+- Refine PHP configuration
+- Add a command-line interface for administration (maybe as its own repository)
+- Add more content to this README
+- Add more feedback to successful form submissions