Theater Hall - E.T.I. (HiP main stage)

Reviving open-source projects: at the example of OpenTracks

HIP - Track 1 - Room 5
Dennis Guse
Most open-source projects have limit lifetime: at some point in time development stops and the project becomes unmaintained. A lot of projects often do not even reach the stage, where they are used by a critical mass of users. In this talk, I will go through the steps of continuing an open-source project using my lessons learned from forking Google's MyTracks and crafting it into OpenTracks.
What makes an open-source project successful? How does a hands-on lifecycle of an open-source project look like? How can we ensure that an open-source project stays meaningful over several years? In 2016, Google decided to sun set MyTracks, which was a very successful Android application for GPS tracking. Back in 2019, I forked Google's MyTracks and re-branded as OpenTracks. In this talk, I will present the hands-on lessons I learned in the subsequent 3 years of ongoing development.

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Live Stream https://streaming.media.ccc.de/jev22/hip1
Type Talk/panel 30 min
Language English

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