fse-workflow
Use when planning an ESEC/FSE project timeline from venue fit through paper registration, submission, the journal-style Major Revision round, artifact evaluation, PACMSE camera-ready, and presentation, with backward-planning offsets for an empirical-SE paper and honest handling of the single-annual-deadline cycle and cycle-hopping.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill fse-workflow --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# FSE Workflow Use this as the project-management skill for an FSE submission. Replace every date with the current official timetable and work backwards from the HotCRP registration cutoff — which precedes the paper deadline. FSE publishes in **PACMSE**, so plan for a possible **Major Revision** round inside the review year, not just an accept/reject. FSE is a conference whose papers are journal articles: it has **no standing editor-in-chief** and **no article-processing charge**. Rotating leadership is the per-edition General and Program/Review Co-Chairs (FSE 2026 General Chairs: Shin Hwei Tan and Foutse Khomh, verified 2026-07-09), and the cost model is registration, not APCs — PACMSE is open access. Chairs rotate yearly; re-check the organizing-committee page rather than carrying a name forward. ## Milestones - **Venue fit:** confirm FSE over ICSE/ASE/ISSTA and confirm the paper is ready this cycle (`fse-topic-selection`). - **Evidence lock:** freeze research questions, subject systems, baselines, statistics, threats, and the artifact contents. - **Registration:** submit real title, abstract, authors, topics, and conflicts by the earlier registration deadline (FSE 2026: 4 Sep 20
- Milestones
- Backward plan from the submission deadline
- Cycle-hopping: the honest calendar reality
- Failure modes by stage
- Coordination notes
- Output format
What does the fse-workflow skill do?
Use when planning an ESEC/FSE project timeline from venue fit through paper registration, submission, the journal-style Major Revision round, artifact evaluation, PACMSE camera-ready, and presentation, with backward-planning offsets for an empirical-SE paper and honest handling of the single-annual-deadline cycle and cycle-hopping.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill fse-workflow --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 909 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.