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Use when preparing the camera-ready of an accepted ACM CoNEXT paper for its assigned PACMNET issue — systematically de-anonymizing, completing PACMNET journal metadata and ACM rights/CCS/keywords, permanentizing artifact and DOI links, applying any shepherd-required changes, and passing ACM production checks.

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CoNEXT Camera-Ready

Deliver the camera-ready for the PACMNET issue your paper was scheduled into. This is the step where the double-anonymous manuscript becomes a citable ACM journal article, so two things dominate: systematic de-anonymization and complete journal metadata. If your paper went through a one-shot revision or a shepherd, this is also where you confirm every required change actually landed before the deadline (December cycle: camera-ready 30 Apr 2026; major-revision path 31 Jul 2026 — verify your cycle's date).

De-anonymize systematically

The review copy was scrubbed of identity; the camera-ready must restore it completely and only where appropriate:

[Authors + affiliations]  add the real author block and affiliations
[Acknowledgments]         restore funding, grants, and collaborators
[Self-citation]           switch "prior work [12]" back to first person only where accurate
[System/testbed names]    restore real names of systems, testbeds, deployments
[Artifact links]          swap anonymized URLs for the permanent DOI-issuing archive
[Repository]              point to the real, public repository (not the anon service)

Do a dedicated pass: a leftover "Anonymous" or a dead anon-service link in the published article is a visible production error.

Complete PACMNET journal metadata

Because CoNEXT publishes in PACMNET, the camera-ready carries journal metadata, not just conference proceedings fields:

  • ACM CCS concepts and author keywords (required for ACM DL indexing).
  • The ACM rights/licensing block (the e-rights form output) — CoNEXT/PACMNET is open access; confirm the exact license and copyright string from your rights form.
  • Author ORCIDs and correct affiliations.
  • The PACMNET volume/issue assignment (e.g., the cycle-named issue your paper landed in) and any article-number/DOI fields the production kit requests.

Permanentize availability

  • Move the artifact from the anonymizing service to a DOI-issuing archive (Zenodo/figshare/ Software Heritage) and cite that DOI in the paper.
  • If you earned or are pursuing ACM reproducibility badges, ensure the badge and the artifact DOI are correctly associated (coordinate with the reproducibility committee; see conext-artifact-evaluation).
  • Replace any placeholder or personal-GitHub link; the published record should point to permanent locations.

Apply shepherd / revision-required changes

  • If a shepherd was assigned or the paper came through a one-shot revision, re-check the list of minimum necessary changes against the final PDF; the shepherd signs off before publication.
  • Do not use camera-ready to quietly expand scope or add claims the reviewers did not see — restrict edits to the required changes, de-anonymization, and polish.

Pass ACM production checks

  • Compile with the required acmart version/options for PACMNET; do not alter margins or fonts.
  • Run the ACM PDF checks (embedded fonts, no broken references, valid metadata) that the production/TAPS pipeline enforces.
  • Confirm the paper fits the final page allowance (the camera-ready limit may differ from the review limit — verify).
  • Check figures, especially topology diagrams and CDFs, render correctly in the final PDF.

Camera-ready checklist

[De-anon]      authors, acks, system/testbed names, artifact links all restored? yes/no
[No leftovers] no "Anonymous", no dead anon-service links? yes/no
[Metadata]     CCS + keywords + rights block + ORCIDs + PACMNET issue/DOI complete? yes/no
[Availability] artifact on a DOI archive; badge association correct? yes/no
[Shepherd]     required changes confirmed in the final PDF? yes/no/n-a
[Production]   acmart version, ACM PDF checks, page allowance, figures? pass/fail

Output format

[Camera-ready status] ready / blocked
[Cycle + issue] <December | June> cycle -> PACMNET <volume/issue>
[De-anonymization] complete / leftovers: <where>
[Metadata] CCS/keywords/rights/ORCID/DOI status
[Availability] permanent artifact DOI + badge association
[Production] acmart + ACM checks pass? outstanding items with the deadline