The IOCCC is pending

While the IOCCC is not open now, there is a tentative opening date for the next IOCCC.

See the IOCCC news for details including the tentative scheduled opening date.

A preliminary IOCCC rules, preliminary IOCCC guidelines, and preliminary mkiocccentry tools have been posted.

Comments and suggestions on these preliminary items are welcome, see FAQ 0.5 for information on how.

status.json

    {
        "no_comment" : "mandatory comment: because comments were removed from the original JSON spec",
        "IOCCC_status_version" : "1.0 2024-03-09",
        "contest_status" : "pending",
        "news_update" : "2024-12-31T21:39:37+00:00",
        "status_update" : "2024-12-29T10:01:35+00:00"
    }

format

The following JSON members are required to be present status.json.

no_comment

This is a mandatory comment for which we offer no comment other than this comment. :-)

The JSON member value must be the following JSON quoted string:

    "mandatory comment: because comments were removed from the original JSON spec"

IOCCC_status_version

This is the version of format of the status.json file.

The JSON member value of is a JSON quoted string the form “version YYYY-MM-DD”.

This document describes version “1.0 2024-03-09”.

contest_status

This is the current status of the contest.

The following JSON member value string may be one of the following JSON quoted strings:

“pending”

While the contest PENDING the contest is not yet open, however there is a tentative scheduled date and time by which the contest will open for submissions.

A preliminary IOCCC rules, IOCCC guidelines, and IOCCC mkiocccentry tools have been released.

You may register for the IOCCC while the contest is pending, however you will NOT receive your own Email message containing your very own Username and Initial Password until the contest is open. You will need these to be able to upload your submission to the IOCCC submit server.

Once contest moves from pending to open, an announcement Email will be sent out to the mailing list of those have successfully registered for the IOCCC. In addition, an announcement will be made to the IOCCC news in case you miss that announcement Email.

While you are waiting for the contest to open, we highly recommend that you review the IOCCC rules, IOCCC guidelines, and IOCCC mkiocccentry tools.

Should you have any comments, suggestions, and concerns about the above, and while you waiting for the contest to open, please see the FAQ on “comment or make a suggestion on IOCCC rules, guidelines and tools” as well as the FAQ on “best way to ask a question about the IOCCC rules, guideline and tools” for how.

See also the FAQ on “how to upload your submission” for more information on the submission process when the IOCCC reopens.

“open”

While contest is OPEN, those who have registered for the IOCCC may upload their submissions to the IOCCC submit server.

See the FAQ on “how to submit” for more information.

See the IOCCC news page for details on any IOCCC related deadlines such as when the contest will close.

The IOCCC rules, IOCCC guidelines, and IOCCC mkiocccentry tools are now official. Should you have any questions about these, please see the FAQ on “best way to ask a question about the IOCCC rules, guideline and tools” for how to ask them.

Be sure to review the official IOCCC rules, IOCCC guidelines, for any changes, as well as updating your IOCCC mkiocccentry tools as changes to them may have been made while the contest was “pending”.

See also the FAQ on “how to submit” for more information on the submission process when the IOCCC reopens.

“judging”

While contest is JUDGING, you cannot register nor can you upload submissions. This is because the IOCCC judges are in the process of judging the submissions they received while the contest was open.

Watch the @IOCCC mastodon feed for updates.

Once the contest closes, the judges will:

Select the winning entries and announce them on the @IOCCC mastodon feed.
Notify the authors of entries that won the contest via email using their registered email address.
Announce who the authors are of this year’s winning IOCCC entries via the @IOCCC mastodon feed.
Upload the winning code to the Official IOCCC winner repo.
Update the Official IOCCC website, and in particular display this year’s winning IOCCC entries at the top of the IOCCC winning entries page.
Update the IOCCC news page.

“closed”

While contest is CLOSED, you cannot register nor can you upload submissions. You have to wait for the next contest to open.

See the IOCCC winning entries page for the entries that have won the IOCCC.

NOTE: From time to time, winning IOCCC entries may have their write-ups updated, Makefiles improved, source code fixed etc. See IOCCC news for details.

Watch both this IOCCC status page and the @IOCCC mastodon feed for information about future contest openings.

news_update

This shows the latest modification date for the IOCCC news page.

The JSON member value is a JSON quoted string obtained from the date field of the following ls(1) command:

    TZ=UTC ls -D '%FT%T+00:00' -ld news.html

NOTE: The date and time are given with respect to UTC timezone.

NOTE: It is possible that for some reason, the IOCCC news page was modified without the content being changed. While we will try to minimize the cases where this happen, we apologize in advance (Sorry tm Canada 🇨🇦) when it does.

status_update

This shows the latest modification date of status.json file.