Here's a question for #academia: why shouldn't I count my contributions to major open-source projects which are scientifically relevant (e.g. Linux [1], OpenCV [2]) just like publications?

- They have a unique identifier.
- They are most certainly peer-reviewed (if you don't believe me, try to submit a Linux patch sometime)
- They are archived long-term.
- They are publicly available.

So... where's the difference?

[1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/input/touchscreen/sur40.c
[2] https://github.com/opencv/opencv/pull/10081

[RFC] Java Camera2 View for Android by floe · Pull Request #10081 · opencv/opencv

Based on #10050, here's a first alpha implementation of the Camera2 adapter class which should allow zero-copy access to preview image data. Comments very welcome. Known issues at the moment: tuto...

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