Plan: Phase 2 to Submission
Where the paper is going and when. Target: EASE 2027 research track — abstract 15 January, full paper 22 January 2027. The January submission is the systematic review plus the memory-bank census; the controlled experiment on real GitHub repositories follows in the journal extension. As of 10 November 2026.
Where the paper stands
Phase 1 (framing and protocol) is complete and the protocol is frozen. The paper skeleton, the first prose sections (review method, background), the bibliography generated from the three research stores, and a new section on memory banks in the wild are on main. Phase 2 — the search, screening and extraction — starts now. The repository is private until publication; the compiled draft is available to collaborators there.
Venue options
Checked 10 November 2026. Deadlines are Anywhere on Earth unless the venue says otherwise.
| Venue / track | Deadline | Format | Fit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ICSE 2027 research | 30 Jun 2026 | — | — | closed |
| ICSE 2027 NIER / SEIP | 23 Oct 2026 | 4 pp / 10 pp | — | closed |
| ICSE 2028 research | not yet public (≈ Jun 2027 if the 2027 pattern holds) | ≈10 pp | good, late | unknown |
| EASE 2027 research — target | abstract 15 Jan · full 22 Jan 2027 | 10 + 2 pp, ACM, double-anonymous | best: SLR-with-quality-appraisal is native; EMSE special issue | open |
| FSE 2027 Ideas, Visions & Reflections | 12 Feb 2027 | 4 pp + refs | the thesis alone; fallback or companion | open |
| FSE 2027 Industry | 23 Jan 2027 | 5 / 10 pp | poor | open |
| AGENT 2027 workshop @ ICSE | 13 Nov 2026 | short | most on-topic; position paper only | open |
| MSR 2027 Registered Reports | abstract 13 Nov · report 20 Nov 2026 | RR | format fits a frozen protocol; MSR scope is mining | open |
| EMSE / TOSEM / TSE | rolling | journal | best overall fit; full-paper home | open |
| arXiv | same day as submission | — | always | — |
Sources: EASE 2027,FSE 2027 dates,ICSE 2027 NIER,SE deadlines aggregator. ICSE 2028 and ASE 2027 pages were not yet public.
Milestones
- Decisions D1–D6; EASE target confirmed; controlled experiment moves to the EMSE extension
- Known-item list repaired; known-item test run against the frozen protocol
- Corpus assembled and frozen (first-public date ≤ 30 Sep 2026); PRISMA identification counts
- Tier 1 screening audit complete (κ, false-negative rate with CI)
- Tier 2 assigned; first M/N
- Extraction and taxonomy calibration complete
- Evidence map, gap list, verification pass complete; writing from data
- EASE 2027 abstract (AoE)
- Co-author full read returned
- EASE 2027 full paper (AoE) + arXiv
- FSE 2027 IVR — fallback / companion
- EASE 2027 notification
Workstreams
| Weeks | Dates | Work | Owner |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1–2 | Nov 10–23 | Known-item repair: security venue re-sweep; unfinished channels; fold the harness, memory and atlas stores into the known-item list; verify originals | Claude; Jason reviews |
| 1–3 | Nov 10–Dec 6 | Memory-bank census into the paper (§6): amendment 16, decisions (a)–(c), dual human coding of 74 candidate layouts, tables and figure | Jason, Atharva, Claude |
| 2–3 | Nov 23–Dec 6 | Known-item test; four-channel search; snowballing to the stop rule; corpus frozen | Claude |
| 3–4 | Dec 1–14 | Tier 1 screening: LLM screen plus a ≥300-record dual human audit | Jason + Atharva; Chris adjudicates |
| 4–5 | Dec 8–21 | Full-text screen, Tier 2 assignment, first M/N, PRISMA counts | Claude; one human on every exclusion |
| 5–6 | Dec 15–Jan 1 | Extraction on the 4-tuple; taxonomy calibration with independent second coding | Claude; Jason + Atharva code |
| 6–7 | Dec 29–Jan 10 | Evidence map, unreported-fields table, ranked gaps; adversarial gap verification; separated citation verification | Claude |
| 1–5 | Nov 10–Dec 14 | Memory track: screen the atlas and candidate CSVs into the data files; benchmark decision | Atharva |
| 7–10 | Jan 5–22 | Writing from data; full co-author read; anonymisation and page fit; arXiv on submission day | all |
The binding constraints are the dual human screening in early December and the dual coding over the holidays, not compute. If either window cannot be staffed, the fallback is FSE IVR in February for the thesis and the journal directly for the full paper. The plan of record, with effort estimates, isconstruction/design/03_phase2-plan-ease2027.md in thepaper repository (private).