Ask HN: How to Deal with low activity on an awesome FOSS project?
There's an open source project awesomely done, some part of which I am using in my research. By awesome, I imply that the work alredy done on it is extensive, and it has won several awards and recognitions throughout.
Here are some publications
http://tinyurl.com/63cwy55
Its sad to see low activity/contributions on it though!
Project Homepage: http://www.lipitk.sourceforge.net/
Continuously for past 2 years we're getting 4-5 downloads a day however we've no track of what the users are doing with it.
- Is it the problem with sourceforge and its overall interface? Shall we move to GIT. Though moving everything of this scale would be a trouble.
- Any other suggestions that could pump some energy back into the project?
I am officially not supposed to do this, but it'd be awesome to see a phoenix breathing back to life again! Cheers! It is a handwriting recognition library. How many apps use handwriting recognition, not many that I can think of. It seems like it may pickup with the uptake of touch screen phones and tablets.