I recently stumbled across
this post on lobste.rs
about a project called
traceboot which allows
visualizing the Linux boot process using lightweight ftrace events and Perfetto.
The author had
some commentary
about their experience trying to order tracks in Perfetto:

Ordering tracks with perfetto has been ridiculously complicated. It has taken
the majority of the time of this project! Upstream’s answers are basically
that the main user is Android (Perfetto is a Google project) so others come
second if at all. While I get the reasons to do so, I read that as a caution
against depending on it as a third-party. Google is notorious for (…)
completely killing projects

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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.

On Perfetto, Open Source, and Company Priorities