osdi-artifact-evaluationUse when preparing an OSDI artifact for sysartifacts-run evaluation — the post-acceptance timeline, the 2026 narrowing to a single Artifacts Available badge, Zenodo-grade permanent archiving, the AE-committee runbook, and the two-page Artifact Appendix that documents the result.
osdi-author-responseUse when handling author-side dialogue in an OSDI cycle — which in 2026 means no rebuttal at all: pre-empting objections inside the submission, then treating the conditional-accept shepherd exchange as the real author response, with a protocol for mandated revisions and for cycles that reinstate a r
osdi-camera-readyUse when converting an OSDI acceptance into the published paper — the June final-paper deadline, expansion to 14 pages plus appendices, the two-page Artifact Appendix, de-anonymization and restored acknowledgments, USENIX open-access publication from day one, and presenter obligations in Seattle.
osdi-experimentsUse when designing or auditing the evaluation of an OSDI submission — choosing mature baselines and realistic workloads, structuring the section around research questions, measuring scalability and tail behavior, quantifying the design's costs, and fitting the evidence into the 12-page reviewed body
osdi-related-workUse when positioning an OSDI submission against prior systems literature — covering the OSDI/SOSP/NSDI/FAST/EuroSys/ATC lanes, verifying venues through USENIX's free open-access proceedings and dblp, and citing your own precursors without breaking the renamed-system anonymity rule.
osdi-reproducibilityUse when building reproducibility into an OSDI systems project — recording hardware, configuration, workload, and measurement provenance while experiments run, keeping paper and artifact from drifting apart, and setting up for the post-acceptance sysartifacts evaluation and open-access scrutiny.
osdi-review-processUse when reasoning about how an OSDI paper is reviewed and decided — the double-blind HotCRP PC pipeline with no author-response period, the two tracks, conditional acceptance with heavyweight shepherding, co-chair recusal, notification timing, and the Jay Lepreau Best Paper lineage.
osdi-submissionUse when running the final pre-upload audit of an OSDI submission on HotCRP — the December registration and full-paper deadlines at 2:59 pm PST, the 12-page/no-appendix check, institution-level double-blind rules, the renamed-system requirement, track choice, and the eight-submission author cap.
osdi-supplementaryUse when deciding where OSDI content lives given the no-appendix submission rule — triaging material between the 12-page reviewed body, the 14-page-plus-appendices final paper, and the public artifact, since OSDI (unlike appendix-friendly venues) reviews nothing outside the body.
osdi-topic-selectionUse when deciding whether a systems project fits OSDI, choosing between its Research and Operational Systems tracks, or routing the work to SOSP, NSDI, FAST, EuroSys, or the post-USENIX ATC instead — applying the built-and-measured test before a December deadline is spent on a misfit.
osdi-workflowUse when planning or managing a full OSDI cycle — the December title-registration and submission deadlines on HotCRP, the silent no-rebuttal review window, March notification, the May artifact deadline, June shepherded final papers, and the July conference — including rejection retargeting to SOSP o
osdi-writing-styleUse when drafting or revising an OSDI paper's prose and structure — building the pain → abstraction → mechanism → measurement narrative, fitting it into the 12-page reviewed body with no appendix escape hatch, and writing for a PC told to down-rank padded papers and given no rebuttal to clarify with