Comp objects need to know what state they're in

[jmacdotorg]

Where possible states include:

• Nascent (hasn't started accepting entries yet)
• Open (accepts entries and prizes)
• Begun (accepts votes and prizes)
• Prizing (judging is done, but not all prizes have been assigned to authors yet)
• Over (is all done)

Plus these meta-state:

• Active (in the state of either 'open' or 'begun')
• Inactive (not 'active')

And there needs to be a "fetch the active comp" method on the comp resultset, which will return 0 or 1 comp objects.

[jmacdotorg]

I reckon that the best way to do this involves adding date columns to the database.

[taskboy3000]

Agreed. I would use simple datestamps for each each event.

Active/Inactive may be helper routines to look process the DB values but shield the details of implementation from the caller.