--- title: On Perfetto, Open Source, and Company Priorities | daily.dev description: A Perfetto team member reflects on the challenges of maintaining an open source project within a large company. The post discusses how Android priorities often... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/on-perfetto-open-source-and-company-priorities-8wwjfe7b5 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: On Perfetto, Open Source, and Company Priorities | daily.dev og:description: A Perfetto team member reflects on the challenges of maintaining an open source project within a large company. The post discusses how Android priorities often... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/on-perfetto-open-source-and-company-priorities-8wwjfe7b5 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/8wWjFE7B5.png og:image:alt: On Perfetto, Open Source, and Company Priorities og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # On Perfetto, Open Source, and Company Priorities **[Lobsters](https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters)** · 6 min read · 12 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A Perfetto team member reflects on the challenges of maintaining an open source project within a large company. The post discusses how Android priorities often overshadow external user needs, leading to delayed features like track ordering in trace visualization. The team recently added support for manual track ordering and commits to better communication about priorities, more transparent issue management, and encourages community feedback to help with prioritization decisions. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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