Timeline for Are contributions to a open source project helpful for graduate admissions?
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| May 18, 2014 at 20:06 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper | @Aditya: Granted, that does not sound sufficient. I thought your contribution to the project was more connected to the actual topic (interesting on the research side) of the project rather than just technical maintenance. In the latter case, I agree that a fork is not that convincing, for it doesn't inherently show your commitment to contribution as a participation in a well-known project would do. | |
| May 18, 2014 at 20:04 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper | @xLeitix: Unless the evaluation of the "claim that they have added something to it" is limited to a superficial look at the line count, then no, I'd say that it would be sufficiently difficult to provide some reliable description and proof of a tangible enhancement if there is none. | |
| May 18, 2014 at 20:02 | comment | added | Aditya | @O.R.Mapper I am planning on porting the lib to a new language. I am not enhancing it in anyway. Will it still carry any weight-age ? | |
| May 18, 2014 at 20:00 | comment | added | xLeitix | @O.R.Mapper That's not the question here. The question was whether contributing to a well-known and relevant OSS project will help the poster's case for graduate admission. I would say it helps, but if the original project does does not merge it back (i.e., does not accept the code contribution), it will be perceived as much less valuable. Everybody can clone a project and claim that they have added something to it. | |
| May 18, 2014 at 19:58 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper | @xLeitix: Are you sure about your statement concerning the fork? I mean, isn't it quite typical for CS-related papers to build upon an established concept by forking a sufficiently proven implementation of the concept and incorporating one's own enhancements that provide a demonstrable improvement over the fork state? A paper would then concentrate on the conceptual improvements and the present the implementation as a proof of concept, but usually wouldn't care about "implementation" aspects such as download counts of the fork. | |
| May 18, 2014 at 17:47 | comment | added | Aditya | How about scikit-learn github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn I don't think there can be any forum for this. Cause see its a subjective question. I can't post it in any stackexchange site. You have a PHD in computer science and are a professor in university of zurich !! I don't think I can find anyone more qualified to answer my question in any other forum !! | |
| May 18, 2014 at 17:44 | comment | added | xLeitix | I do not know, but this is certainly not the right forum to discuss this. | |
| May 18, 2014 at 17:40 | comment | added | Aditya | Are there any other famous ML toolkits out there that I could contribute to ? I was thinking of porting libsvm to JS by the way. | |
| May 18, 2014 at 17:39 | comment | added | xLeitix | "So if I fork it and start contribute it to it on my own and it may have very little downloads" I would assume this reduces the value significantly, yes. | |
| May 18, 2014 at 17:36 | comment | added | Aditya | I am assuming he is not accepting any patches cause he didn't even accept/comment on any patch so far even the ones 8 months old !! | |
| May 18, 2014 at 17:33 | comment | added | Aditya | Umm .. I have one problem with this though. The guy who runs the LIBSVM project is not accepting any patches. So if I fork it and start contribute it to it on my own and it may have very little downloads. Will it it be of still value ? | |
| May 18, 2014 at 17:04 | history | answered | xLeitix | CC BY-SA 3.0 |