• 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?

  • corbin@infosec.pub
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    1 year ago

    If I’m thinking about projects that could benefit the most from an exponential increase in active developers:

    • Wine/Proton (could have a fantastic windows runtime on every *nix platform)
    • ReactOS (lot of potential for a windows 7/10 upgrade path)
    • Mozilla Firefox (would help with API parity with chromium)
    • GIMP (but only if they agree to change the stupid name)

    The rest goes to package managers and other lower-level projects that don’t get enough of a spotlight, maybe Brew or Curl or something.