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

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