Some background to explain the post: I'm currently taking an Open-Source Software Development course in college, the main premise of which involves us finding an open-source project on GitHub and spending the semester working on it, either improving or expanding it in some way. Me being a music porter, I searched and found the repositories for SPCtoMML, IT2AMK, and PetiteMM, and it seems that none of them have been updated in at least 3 years (with the exception of PetiteMM's readme).
The basis of my question comes to this: were I to choose one or more of these three music tools, would there be any possible value to me working on and trying to improve them? I occasionally see people talking about how the MML output from at least some of these programs aren't immediately usable with AMK, or just unoptimized in some way, so it seems to me that there's room to improve these tools in some way. Of course, I have little experience with any of these tools, so I could be wrong, or underestimating how much work it would take. (I assume this wouldn't be stepping on the toes of the software creators since they uploaded them to GitHub, but if it is feel free to let me know.)
Any thoughts on this matter from people more familiar with the programs or using them would be greatly appreciated.