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Tim Perdue on GForge & Building SourceForge

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the walk-down-memory-lane dept.

Steve Mallett writes "I've just posted an interview I did with Tim Perdue, former co-'head honcho' responsible for developing SourceForge. You'll either love it or hate the interview, but it's on his new project GForge, a fork of the previously open source code running SF, while he shares some insight in what seems like a miracle that SourceForge was built at all." Obviously Slashdot's parent runs SourceForge, so insert whatever mental disclaimer and conspiracy theory you want here.

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  1. Re:WTF? by zerOnIne · · Score: 5, Informative

    actually Tim specifically took out a lot of the hackery that allows SF.net to scale to such ridiculously huge numbers, which are not generally needed for small installations, which is what GForge is targeted to ...

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  2. Re:Sourceforget by fusion94 · · Score: 5, Informative

    I didn't "invent" sourceforge. The original SourceForge site was the efforts of:

    Myself, Tim Perdue, Drew Streib, Uriah Welcome

    We also got tons of help from the following people:

    Quentin Cregan, Steve Westmoreland, Chris DiBona, Joe Arruda, Jeff Ritter, Patrick Wong, Neil Doane, Robert Flemming and Kit Cosper.