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。随着全球研究社区的迅速扩大,以及像大语言模型这类快速演进方法的广泛融入,传统的同行评审实践在压力下濒临崩溃。单一化评审的“官僚异常”在数学上已不可持续,形成了一种随机“抽奖”机制,这种机制抑制创新并耗尽研究者的精力。本文从2036年的视角出发,记录了潜在的解决方案。在此,ASE、EMSE、IST、JSS、TOSEM和TSE期刊的编辑们共同构想了一个更光明未来的集体愿景。简而言之,我们首先停止了对抗(期刊联盟)。随后我们修复了流程(抽奖机制/解绑评审/修复基准测试坟墓场)。最后我们重塑了文化(大教堂模式/集市模式)。