In 2025, SE publishing faces an existential crisis of scalability. As our communities swell globally and integrate fast-moving methodologies like LLMs, traditional peer-review practices are collapsing under the strain. The "bureaucratic anomaly" of monolithic review has become mathematically unsustainable, creating a stochastic "lottery" that punishes novelty and exhausts researchers. This paper, written from the perspective of 2036, documents potential solutions. Here, the editors of ASE, EMSE, IST, JSS, TOSEM and TSE dream a collective dream of a brighter future. In summary first we stopped fighting (The Journal Alliance). Then we fixed the process (The Lottery / Unbundling / Fixing the Benchmark Graveyard). And then we fixed the culture (Cathedrals/Bazaars).
翻译:2025年,软件工程出版领域面临可扩展性的生存危机。随着研究社群在全球范围内迅速扩张,并整合大语言模型等快速演进的方法论,传统同行评议体系正不堪重负而濒临崩溃。单一审稿模式的"官僚化畸形"在数学上已难以为继,形成惩罚创新、耗尽研究者精力的随机"抽签"机制。本文以2036年的视角撰写,记录了潜在解决方案。在此,《自动化软件工程》《实证软件工程》《信息与软件技术》《系统与软件杂志》《软件工程方法学报》与《软件工程学报》的编辑们共同憧憬一个更光明的未来。简而言之,我们首先停止了对抗(期刊联盟),继而修复了流程(抽签制/服务解绑/修复基准坟墓),最终重塑了文化(大教堂/集市模式)。