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Q: Is Oxygen ready for production use? #19
Description
This project looks very interesting, and I would like to understand how mature the
project currently is.
Is Oxygen considered ready for production use, or is it still
primarily under development?
Are there any examples of Oxygen being used for actual
orienteering events or competitions?
If so, it would be helpful to know:
- What types of events it has been used for.
- Whether it has been used for larger competitions.
- Which features have been used in real-world events.
- Whether there are any documented deployments or user
experiences.
Any information about the current status and real-world usage
would be greatly appreciated.
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ellmkay commentedon Sep 19, 2026
Oxygen is still very much under active development, just yesterday I added initial support for end2end mapmaking for example.
On the other hand, a lot of the features are stable enough that they can be used, and have been used so far in one small competition. This was however many months ago, so I would not currently recommend using it without doing full testing first.
From an architectural perspective, oxygen is created to allow hosting events at o-ringen scale, without any performance issues. And it's created to gracefully handle longer periods without connectivity.
I activated Discussions under the oxygen repository, I haven't used that before, but I think that might be a good place to start sharing experiences around the usage of oxygen.
There are features that are currently lacking, like forking, speaker support etc. None of this is hard to add, I just haven't needed them so far. But any feature requests and especially bug reports are very welcome, I will happily resolve any issues.
My club is currently in a period of not doing any major competitions, due to us being one of the clubs hosting o-ringen next year, so unfortunately there will not be any upcoming real competitions where I get to try out oxygen this fall. There will be one competition this winter that we'll host, where oxygen will be used (Vinterserien).