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If you could give 10 years of development time to up to 10 software projects, which would you choose?

  • You can choose up to 10 software projects.
  • Each project receives 10 years of development time as if all the programmers worked continuously for that duration, following their current working methods.
  • After choosing these 10 (or less) projects, everything else remains unchanged in the world, as if time has been frozen for 10 years.

Which projects do you choose?

lea ,

Matrix, its clients, and Revolt. I’m sick of there not being a featureful Discord alternative the most.

jabberati ,
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They already collected tens of millions of venture capital funding for an inefficient reinvention of XMPP. Can we boost XMPP development instead? We don't need another corporate replacement for an existing internet standard.

oldfart ,

I still can’t wrap my head around how smoothly Matrix took over the FOSS IM space while offering nothing new

jabberati ,
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People like shiny things. They should build on the existing internet standards, and make a shiny XMPP client. Instead we get yet another incompatible protocol.

oldfart ,

Is it shiny though? Last time I used riot.im or vector.im or whatever the client was named, it was no less clunky than converse.js. Nowhere close to, say, Discord or Telegram.

That was in year 201x, I’m sure they got better since then, but that was the time when they gained popularity

Xianshi ,

Linux kernel

OpenBSD

Gnu Hurd

Debian

Tor

Fdroid

SteamOS

Vulkan / DXVK

Wayland

Firefox

railsdev ,

I’d love to see Docker on FreeBSD, I hate relying on Linux just because I’ve got some containers to run.

raven ,

I’m going to start with a couple projects that don’t already exist.

  • Something like the AUR but for non executable content like movies or books. I’m imagining something like;
    (program name) -m (medium, eg. Book, magazine, article (or “print” for any text document) Show, Movie (or video for any video document) and so on) (search term)
  • A project that allows a full installed-in-place Linux installation with grub and all, no USB drive required. If that’s a two stage thing where it partitions a section of the drive then installs an installer there, then reboots to that installer, or some other thing doesn’t matter. No, not whatever Ubuntu used to do, I mean a proper installation.
  • A program that tricks lan games into playing in side by side couch coop. I’ve figured out a method for doing this using multiseat on swayWM but it’s pretty complicated and touchy.
  • An open source car computer software. Not for the infotainment.
  • An open source printer that works.
  • A liquid democracy voting system

Things that actually exist:

  • Minetest, specifically creating tools to help existing Minecraft mods be ported over.
  • GIMP
  • IPFS, try to get it in use in more places by default (AUR seems promising?)
  • Wine
thelastknowngod ,

A project that allows a full installed-in-place Linux installation with grub and all, no USB drive required.

This could be possible today. A combination of PXE booting and FAI would be enough. I think you’d just need to work out a way for PXE to work over the public Internet. Otherwise you’d need to have the image downloaded already and have it available via web server to be accessible from the booting machine. Years ago I used iPXE and it was really nice. Haven’t used it in a loooong time.

Also, Talos is doing some really interesting install processes as well. Basically you boot a small (~80mb) image, it exposes a network port, and you send it a machine configuration manifest. It all runs in memory until the configuration instructions are sent, then it installs. There isn’t even an option to install it locally because local auth is not allowed and ssh is not included. You must do it over the network. Talos is all kubernetes so might not be what you’re looking for but it’s an interesting approach.

Hexadecimalkink ,
  • Godot Engine
  • OnlyOffice
  • Appflowy
  • Affine.pro
  • Debian
  • Forgejo/Gittea
  • Blender
  • Linux Mint
  • Postgresql
AceFuzzLord ,
  • MorphOS (as someone who is a fan of Amiga)
  • SuperTux Advance (much better than plain old SuperTux in my opinion)
  • Even though I’ll probably never end up even starting it, I’d love to see my idea for an open source clone of Vib Ribbon for PC to happen (game name under debate)
  • Krosmaga (I love this card game and would love to see new cards or even new deity classes to play as like Pandawa or Osamados)
  • Steam Proton (just to see a much higher percentage of Steam games work on Linux/SteamOS if possible)
Platform27 ,
  1. KDE Project
  2. Wayland
  3. Open source drivers (especially Nvidia)
  4. Lemmy
  5. Mastadon
  6. Scribus
  7. Nextcloud
  8. Firefox
  9. Tutanota suite
  10. Wine
morphballganon ,

The next four Zeldas, the next Metroid, the next Mario, the next Smash Bros, the next three Elder Scrolls

pandarisu ,

How about giving all 100 years to GameFreak so they can try to make a good Pokémon game?

morphballganon , (edited )

I wouldn’t roll the dice on those 100 years like that

PlexSheep , (edited )
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You better bring wavedashing back and buff Jigglypuff

morphballganon ,

I’m not working on it

PlexSheep ,
@PlexSheep@feddit.de avatar

Good, don’t switch the direction of puff on back air and remove lag frames.

Moonguide ,

Honestly, there’s a lot of great answers in this thread. Personally, I’d love to see a FOSS ttrpg manager. Talking a complete library of monsters, races, classes, etc., along with an optimized pipeline for homebrewed stuff. Tools for encounter, battlemap, NPC and campaign flow creation.

Closest thing is 5e Companion App but it doesn’t have a PC client, isn’t FOSS, has a lot of weird limitations and UX/UI issues (like multiclassing could be simpler, and its really frustrating that you can’t level down a character after all the work you did, forcing you to do it all over again just to change classes and spells). Also DnD next but getting source books for a whole player session is expensive.

Artaca ,

Foundry is probably the closest I’ve seen, considering the non-premium modules are FOSS. Granted, I play Pathfinder (OGL/ORC license), not DnD, so I dunno if Wizards locks their stuff down more to promote using their own services.

Moonguide ,

Hm, interesting, I’ll take a proper look tomorrow. I’m expecting that foundry only has srd available. That’s another annoying thing.

zyeri ,

You can import things from 5e.tools using a module, IIRC it’s called Plutonium. We’re using it to import items, spells, classes, etc. and then the DM is homebrewing everything else.

Moonguide ,

Ooo, cool, thanks! I’ll talk my guys into splitting the cost after this campaign is over. We’re using Owlbear rn, but I’m doing everything myself on Sheets, Ps, Ai, Notion and making my maps in Rimworld. Hefty workflow I’m not sure the next person who wants to DM will be down for.

hypercube ,

figure out a way to slam all 100 years into cybersyn related projects. kill pinochet with a mech made out of bakelite and woodgrain paneling

johnyrocket ,

Nextcloud and nc integration apps. The integration to android ls so much further behind the windows desktop / web experience, using nc in a browser on android is often better than the app (due to lack of features, not because of bugs those are fine in my experiance)

Nemo ,

Dwarf Fortress, and then the other nine I’d have to think about.

SinkingLotus ,
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I’d add Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead to go along with DF. Also DFHack.

Nemo ,

Never really used DFHack, honestly, but I’ve heard only good things about CDDA

rufus ,

llama.cpp

Matrix chat

the Fediverse

and some self-hosting framework

(and maybe just for shits and giggles to buttplug.io just to see what amazing thing this will become)

Oha ,

Lemmy, Firefox, Proton/wine, KDE, GNOME, Wayland

LopensLeftArm ,
@LopensLeftArm@sh.itjust.works avatar

Baldur’s Gate 4 through 13.

Icalasari ,

All of it to the next generation of Pokemon games

I just want to see how GameFreak manages to fuck it up even with all the development time they could possibly ever need

MomoTimeToDie ,

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    potterpockets ,

    I cant believe i am saying this, but i will give GF the smallest amount of a pass possible in that if they could develop a game on their schedule (while it probably would still have issues) it would probably be a much more complete and game than we have seen in a while.

    And the reason for that is because of the demands and standards on GF from Nintendo/The Pokemon Company would be alleviated by significantly more development time.

    Pokemon the brand is so fucking massive it is almost hard to comprehend. And that is because in part of how well synergized the different products are marketed and released. And right there is why it is impossible for GF to ask for a game to be delayed if they wanted to in order to create more assets (like 3D sprites) or do QA.

    A delay in the game releasing means they have to slow the production of cards, tv shows, movies, toys, promotions, all of the rest of the products that are based on the new game’s pokemon or other features.

    The entire brand pretty much has to halt. Why do that when they know people will still by a poorly optimized and game with less features than the previous entry (plus DLC) and then still get hyped to also buy cards and toys and everything else?

    MomoTimeToDie ,

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    Icalasari ,

    On BDSP, Legends was supposed to be that. They thought it was too different, suddenly switch direction and changed a bunch of resources, and threw the Gen 4 remake to some random company that did a shit job (and for some ungodly reason was invited on to help with Gen 9) - There's even assets including a 1 to 1 remake of the players room from DPPt in Legend's code

    That said, yeah the lack of time given by TPCi is only part of the problem. The people running GameFreak, for some ungodly reason, refuse to use the money and resources they have to hire more people. They intentionally keep one of if not THE smallest AAA team in the industry

    Apparently, TPCi is having internal talks about how they don't give GameFreak enough time, though, and apparently are also getting pissed at GameFreak's higher ups refusing to hire more people, so HOPEFULLY this leads somewhere, but yeah

    There's a reason why even with ten or hell, a hundred years, I still doubt GameFreak could produce something. Time fixes half the problem. Their refusal to hire people however means they could be given all the time in the world and still not be able to produce because most of the time would be spent updating to new tech when they could double or triple their team size and have people actually dedicated to that part

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