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update conflict of interests and CARE committee. #128

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Pull request overview

Updates SIGSOFT policy documentation to clarify submission restrictions and conflicts-of-interest rules, and refreshes the executive committee CARES co-chair contact list.

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  • Refined “Submissions from Organizing Committee Members” guidance (conference/symposium vs. workshop rules).
  • Expanded/clarified COI categories (recent co-authorship, conference co-chair relationships) and added an explanatory footnote + changelog entry.
  • Updated CARES co-chair listings in the executive committee contact page.

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content/policies/PCpolicy.md Clarifies submission restrictions and updates COI rules; adds a COI footnote and a changelog entry.
content/execcontact.md Updates CARES co-chair names and contact details.

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2. a past or current student or academic advisor;
3. a member of the same organization (e.g., company, university, government agency, etc.) within the past three years;
4. a co-author of a paper under preparation, submitted, or which was published (or posted online in a digital library or public repository such as arXiv) within the past three years[^1]. This rule does not apply to editorials or proceedings prefaces;
5. co-chair (general/program) of a future conference, or a conference that occurred within the last 12 months. The rule does not apply to workshops (including events such as Shonan meetings or Dagshtul workshops), even if they have an editorial or a published report by the organizers.
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List item 5 is grammatically unclear (“co-chair (general/program) of a future conference…”). Consider adding an article/subject so it’s clear the author-category is, e.g., “a general/program co-chair of a future conference…” (and keep the parallel structure with the rest of the list).

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5. co-chair (general/program) of a future conference, or a conference that occurred within the last 12 months. The rule does not apply to workshops (including events such as Shonan meetings or Dagshtul workshops), even if they have an editorial or a published report by the organizers.
5. a general/program co-chair of a future conference, or a conference that occurred within the last 12 months. The rule does not apply to workshops (including events such as Shonan meetings or Dagshtul workshops), even if they have an editorial or a published report by the organizers.

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The program chair will make reasonable efforts to ensure that the manuscripts submitted are made available to and reviewed only by the program committee and supplemental reviewers acting on behalf of the program committee. Neither SIGSOFT nor ACM guarantee the confidentiality of the submitted manuscripts, and accept no liability in the event that the manuscripts are distributed beyond the reviewers.

[^1]: For arXiv reports, the last modification date matters. For conference papers, the conference date matters. For journal papers, the acceptance date matters. For example, if an arXiv paper is accepted at the conference, the conference date will be the date used in COI calculation.
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There’s an extra double-space before “For example” here (“matters. For example”). Consider normalizing spacing to a single space for consistency.

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@copilot apply changes based on this feedback

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@copilot apply changes based on this feedback
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a general/program co-chair of a future conference, or a conference that occurred within the last 12 months. The rule does not apply to workshops (including events such as Shonan meetings or Dagshtul workshops), even if they have an editorial or a published report by the organizers.

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@yqtianust yqtianust merged commit d126d0e into acmsigsoft:main Apr 4, 2026
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