oopsla-camera-ready

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Use when converting an accepted OOPSLA paper into its PACMPL journal article — final acmsmall formatting within the 25-page revision cap, de-anonymization and Data-Availability Statement updates, ACM open-access and rights steps, hitting the OOPSLA1 (April) or OOPSLA2 (October) issue, and planning the SPLASH talk.

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OOPSLA Camera-Ready

An accepted OOPSLA paper does not go into "conference proceedings" — it becomes a journal article in PACMPL (Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages), Gold Open Access, in the issue matching its acceptance round: Round 1 acceptances of the 2026 volume appeared as Vol. 10, Issue OOPSLA1 (published no earlier than April 1, 2026); Round 2 acceptances form Issue OOPSLA2 (no earlier than October 1, 2026). The talk then happens at SPLASH — for 2026, Oakland, with OOPSLA sessions October 5–7. Production deadlines arrive by email from ACM/the chairs and were not publicly posted at verification time (待核实): treat the acceptance letter as the calendar.

What changes between acceptance and print

Item	Submission state	Published-article state
Class options	`acmsmall,screen,review,anonymous`	`acmsmall,screen` per production instructions
Authors	Hidden	Full names, affiliations, ORCIDs, CCS concepts
Acknowledgments	Absent	Funders, grant numbers, contributors
Data-Availability Statement	Anonymized archive	Real archive — ideally the DOI-stamped Zenodo deposit from artifact evaluation
Citations to your own PACMPL-era work	Third person	May remain third person; only add identity where required
Page budget	23 pages	Up to 25 pages (revision cap), same exclusions

Reviewer-commitment reconciliation

For papers that passed through Minor Revision, the final version is checked against the concern list, so build the reconciliation table before touching LaTeX:

| # | Reviewer requirement | Where satisfied (section/page) | Evidence |
|---|----------------------|--------------------------------|----------|
| 1 | Add baseline B to Table 3 | §5.2, p.14 | artifact run 2026-xx-xx |
| 2 | Clarify Thm 2 side condition | §3.4, p.8 | rewritten statement |
...every row filled before upload; unfillable rows escalated to the chairs.

Silently dropping a commitment is the single fastest way to sour the same committee that will see your group's next submission.

ACM production specifics to expect

Rights and open access. PACMPL is Gold OA; the rights form determines the CC license line printed on page one. The current APC amount and waiver path for OOPSLA authors were not confirmed at the access date (待核实) — check dl.acm.org/journal/pacmpl/open-access before advising anyone on cost, and route institutional questions to ACM Open.
Metadata is citation-critical. The article gets a volume, issue (OOPSLA1/OOPSLA2), and article number — e.g. the form PACMPL 10(OOPSLA1) — and that is how others must cite it (oopsla-related-work). Get title capitalization and author-name forms right in the ACM form, not just the PDF, because the DL record is generated from the form.
Badges print on the paper. Artifact badges awarded through the SPLASH process appear on the published article; coordinate the artifact timeline (oopsla-artifact-evaluation) so the deposit DOI exists before the camera-ready statement references it.

Talk planning is part of camera-ready

Accepted papers present in person at SPLASH; for 2026 that meant registering for Oakland (October 4–9) and preparing for a PL audience that has already had access to the published April article for months in the OOPSLA1 case — the talk should assume the paper is read, and spend its minutes on the mechanism and the demo, not the related-work slide. An accepted-paper poster is additionally encouraged at SPLASH and is cheap conference-hallway leverage.

Output format

[Issue target] OOPSLA1 / OOPSLA2, volume <n>
[Reconciliation] <rows total / rows satisfied / escalations>
[De-anonymization] complete: names, ORCID, acks, statement, links
[Rights] form status + license line + APC/waiver status (待核实 items flagged)
[Talk] registration, slot, poster decision