oopsla-review-process
Use when explaining or strategizing around OOPSLA's two-round review machinery — double-anonymous multi-stage reviewing, the four outcomes (Accept, Minor Revision, Major Revision, Reject), reviewer continuity across rounds, round-hopping a Major Revision, and how acceptance flows into a PACMPL issue and the SPLASH talk.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill oopsla-review-process --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.
# OOPSLA Review Process OOPSLA reviews like a journal wearing a conference's clock. Two submission rounds per volume (2026: October 10, 2025 and March 17, 2026), a Review Committee whose chairs act as PACMPL Associate Editors (2026: Anders Møller and Işıl Dillig), multi-stage double-anonymous reviewing, an author-response window per round, and a four-way decision instead of a binary one. Round 1 of 2026 accepted 75 of 227 submissions into PACMPL Vol. 10, Issue OOPSLA1 — roughly a third, but treat any single round's rate as one data point, not a planning constant. ## The four outcomes and what each really means | Outcome | Mechanics | Author's correct read | | --- | --- | --- | | Accept | Into the round's PACMPL issue after camera-ready | Deliver commitments; start the artifact | | Minor Revision | Fixable concerns resolved **within the same round's** process (2026 folded the old Conditional Accept in here) | A near-accept with homework and a checker | | Major Revision | Invitation to resubmit to the **next round** against an explicit expectations list, with reviewer continuity to the extent possible | The venue wants the paper — at its price | | Reject | Out of this volume's pipeli
- The four outcomes and what each really means
- Round-hopping: the mechanic to teach explicitly
- Inside a round
- Reading a review packet like a strategist
- Output format
What does the oopsla-review-process skill do?
Use when explaining or strategizing around OOPSLA's two-round review machinery — double-anonymous multi-stage reviewing, the four outcomes (Accept, Minor Revision, Major Revision, Reject), reviewer continuity across rounds, round-hopping a Major Revision, and how acceptance flows into a PACMPL issue and the SPLASH talk.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill oopsla-review-process --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.