Re: Binary descriptors for OpenCV

[Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>]

Hi Ludovic,

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:
>
>> Nathan Dehnel <ncdehnel@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Perhaps such greyzone objects that can't be fully regenerated should
>>> be put in their own channel so users know where they are and it
>>> doesn't become a mystery how many they have installed on their
>>> systems.
>>
>> I would want put a variant of the opencv package in the guix-science
>> channel if we decide not to include them, because xfeatures2d is useful
>> for feature detection in scientific applications (that’s the only reason
>> why I’m looking into this).
>>
>> However, it would be good to come up with a policy anyway.
>
> Yes, the problem is machine-learning output comes up more and more
> frequently.
>
> I agree we need to come up with a policy (I’m a bit torn on this and not
> too sure what I’d put in there.)  Maybe we should set up a working group
> with interested parties to draft something; who’s in?

I don't feel specially qualified to discuss this issue; perhaps it'd
best be left to the people the FSF to draft new guidelines / expound the
GNU FSDG with these new realities?

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim