Statistics from the 4.7 development cycle

Posted Aug 14, 2016 3:07 UTC (Sun) by torquay (guest, #92428)
In reply to: Statistics from the 4.7 development cycle by linusw
Parent article: Statistics from the 4.7 development cycle

What is needed is to guide academia metrics to include de facto standardization as OSS code in their metrics.

There is a hack of sorts to address this very problem: the Journal of Open Source Software. It aims for short peer-reviewed journal articles that accompany open source code. The articles have a corresponding DOI and are fully citeable, just like "regular" academic articles.

See also the announcement about the journal in LWN.