In advance of conference call with NB, AS and SDW described a couple of specific use-cases (e.g adding additional fields to the Journal Setup process) and got some feedback from AS.

During call on Tuesday confirmed that intervening/interjecting in the workflow and particularly the workflow management is complicated (as compared to adding an external resource or replacing a given feature with a customized one via plug-in). Agreed with AS that the actual mechanics of the open-review process are outside the scope of my work. My work is allowing Journal Manager to specify that a journal allows open review, provides info and a link to that review and allows editor to report result of open review to OJS.

AS suggested dataverss plugin as having a number of characteristics similar to what we propose.