Project
selection
PB173/oss, spring 2022
GitHub course page
Martin Ukrop (mukrop@mail.muni.cz)
Ján Jancár (j08ny@mail.muni.cz)ˇ
You never know who uses your patches :-)
Projects used in previous years
● Tasmota (alternative firmware for microcontrollers in C)
● Qutebrowser (keyboard-driven, vim-like browser in Qt)
● Packit (Fedora packaging tool in Python, OCS task)
● MEVN-ChatApp (alternative GUI chat app in JS/TS/Vue, OSC task)
● Fractal (Matrix messaging app for GNOME in Rust)
● OpenRCT2 (open-source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 in C++)
Projects used in previous years
● GoldenCheetah (desktop app for cyclists, translations using Qt Linguist)
● One Git library to Rule (unified API for many git forges in Python, OSC task)
● Web Scrobbler (browser extension gathering music playback history in JS)
● Syncthing (file synchronization program in Go)
● Coala (unified code fixer/linter in Python)
● Cryptsetup (disk encryption setup utility in C)
● Botan (cryptography library in C++)
Don’t forget the liveness check!
Commit activity
(latest commit, frequency, number of contributors)
Issues & pull requests
(amount open/closed, recency, labeling, responsiveness, style of reactions)
See checklist available from Open Source Guide
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