oopsla-workflow

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Use when planning an OOPSLA campaign on the two-round clock — choosing October vs March entry, budgeting for Minor or Major Revision paths, mapping acceptance to the OOPSLA1 or OOPSLA2 PACMPL issue, scheduling artifact evaluation, and landing the SPLASH talk, with dates re-anchored to the live cycle.

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OOPSLA Workflow

OOPSLA gives a paper two doors per year into the same PACMPL volume — for 2026, October 10, 2025 (Round 1 → Issue OOPSLA1, published from April 1, 2026) and March 17, 2026 (Round 2 → Issue OOPSLA2, from October 1, 2026), with all outcomes presented at SPLASH (Oakland, October 4–9, 2026; OOPSLA talks October 5–7). Planning an OOPSLA campaign is therefore a routing problem over rounds and revision outcomes, not a countdown to a single deadline. As of 2026-07-08 the next open door is the 2027 volume's Round 1, CFP not yet posted (待核实) — re-anchor every date below to live pages.

Door choice: October vs March

Factor	Favors the October round	Favors the March round
Revision insurance	Major Revision lands in March, same volume	Major Revision waits ~7 months for next volume's R1
Publication timing	April issue; citable before the conference	October issue; publishes near conference time
Evidence maturity	Requires the evaluation done by early fall	Buys a winter of experiments
Team calendar	Summer build, fall write	Fall build, winter write
Talk lead time	Long runway to SPLASH	Acceptance close to travel booking

Default heuristic: enter the earliest round where the evidence (not the prose) is complete — the revision insurance of the early round compounds, because the most likely non-accept outcome for solid work is a revision, and same-volume revision is the cheapest one available anywhere in the SIGPLAN family.

Campaign state machine

PLAN ──> ROUND N SUBMITTED ──> RESPONSE WINDOW ──> outcome?
  Accept ─────────────► CAMERA-READY ► ARTIFACT ► ISSUE ► SPLASH TALK
  Minor Revision ─────► execute list, same round ► (as Accept)
  Major Revision ─────► revise against expectations ► ROUND N+1 (same
                        reviewers where possible)
  Reject ─────────────► diagnose ► re-route (oopsla-topic-selection)
                        or rebuild ► a later round
Each transition has an owner and a date pulled from the live track page.

Backward plan from a target round (T = deadline)

T-12 to T-8 weeks — freeze claim list; run oopsla-experiments routing; start the demand matrix and reproducibility ledger.
T-8 to T-4 — full draft in the 23-page frame; related-work family sweep (oopsla-related-work); internal red-team read using the four SIGPLAN pillars.
T-4 to T-1 — style pass (oopsla-writing-style); appendix layering (oopsla-supplementary); Data-Availability Statement drafted from the ledger.
Final 72 hours — the filing-day sequence in oopsla-submission.
Post-submission — pre-write response scaffolding: the concerns you already know about, with PDF pointers ready for the four-day window.

Revision-path budgeting

Reserve capacity after submission: the two most probable outcomes for competent work — Minor and Major Revision — both demand engineering time on a fixed clock. A team that disbands to other projects the week after the deadline systematically converts Minor Revisions into missed opportunities. Rule of thumb: hold 20% of the build team's time in reserve until the outcome letter, then re-plan against the actual expectation list.

Post-acceptance rail

Camera-ready reconciliation (oopsla-camera-ready) → artifact kick-the-tires and badges (oopsla-artifact-evaluation) → Zenodo DOI into the final statement → issue publication → SPLASH registration, talk, and optional poster. The talk lands months after OOPSLA1 publication — plan it as a presentation of known work, and budget travel to the SPLASH city early.

Output format

[Cycle anchor] current volume + next open round (live URL + date checked)
[Door choice] round + rationale from the table
[State] position in the state machine
[Reserve] revision capacity held + expiry
[Next transition] owner, date, blocking items