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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. Yet Another First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Sucka MC's

  2. Tim Perdue by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Finally
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  3. CONFIRMED: I just shat all over myself by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    I can't believe I just took a shit in my pants at work. What the fuck? I cant stand up and take it to the restroom, because I am wading in a puddle of feces at this very moment. Any change in my seating position will send my poo spilling down my legs and into my socks and shoes. There is no way I can play this off as a fart. It doesn't help at all that I've been spun out for 3 days. I can hardly see straight! How am I possibly going to explain this to my Supervisor when she comes over here to ask me what the fuck I just did in the presence of my employer? She'll make me drop trau in front of everyone again. There it is. The person in the cubicle to the right of me just asked if I could smell "that". I gotta go.

    Pr0pz to c0nfucio-licious

    1. Re:CONFIRMED: I just shat all over myself by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Hmm, that's odd because there is a person in the cubicle next to me that smells like monkey feces.

  4. It looks like. by DAldredge · · Score: 0, Troll

    It looks like VA Software doesn't want to devote any resources to ANY of their projects. That would explain why SF had to run on reject hardware and why /. can hire someone to be an editor/dup checker.

  5. Here's my suggestion by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Stop spamming the site, and go troll elsewhere. Mod yourself down to -1. Any other suggestions you need?

  6. Re:Please by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    As should be the case, there was a First Posted request at http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=47721&threshol d=-1&commentsort=0&tid=137&mode=thread&cid=4871289 .

    But, you said you were busy and probably didn't get around to it. I take it your back for the time being?

  7. FUCK YOU! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Stop stealing my First Post thunder you piece of fucking shit asshat. You really need to get the dick out of your mouth when you try to talk to.

  8. WORK YOUR MAGIC, EKROUT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Score: 5,
    Replies: 3

  9. IN SOVIET RUSSIA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Your parent is child of YOU!

  10. Re:Parent's parent? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    MOD PARENT FUNNY.

    What is up with the "Wait twenty seconds after you hit "reply" to hit "submit""... don't they know I'm trying to first post a soviet russia beowulf cluster comment? Come on. Help a brother out.

  11. [ This Is Great News for Managers ] by ekrout · · Score: 0, Troll

    I recently went to the main VA Software Web site (http://www.vasoftware.com). As most of us know, VAS owns SourceForge, a site for collaborative, Internet-based development of projects.

    However, many folks don't quite understand that SourceForge-like software such as GForge, which this article features, can be used to develop products that commercial businesses may sell. SourceForge-like software development works out really great for developers, managers, and in turn for customers who end up with highly-polished, top-notch software programs.

    I tried out a cost calculator at the collaborative software development site and entered in some typical business figures (10 developers total, each making about $50,000 per year). It returned the following:

    Your Results

    Your organization is experiencing excessive productivity loss due to inadequate Development Intelligence, which means that you are at the higher end of the loss scale. Companies with similar characteristics suffer productivity losses between 10-15%. Based on your development costs, this means a loss between $55,000 and $82,500 per year.

    Contact a SourceForge representative to learn how to evaluate your organization and how SourceForge can help you increase productivity by making development more intelligent.

    The above is a SourceForge-specific example, but it of course can be applied to GForge and other groupware/collaborative products.

    The bottom line is that many companies, in hard economic times such as these, could use software like this to really improve their bottom line. Sure, it could be developed in-house, but why not use a great product like GForge and start seeing the cash roll-in today?

    (Congrats to Tim Perdue for the information about GForge, a true up-and-coming OSS product of great value.)

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  12. Re:Server51 not a ripoff. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Wow, I'm sure he's really scared. What an incredible loser you are.

  13. In soviet russia... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...the source forges you!

  14. Sharp Zaurus SourceForge site at by King+of+the+World · · Score: 1, Troll

    http://community.sourceforge.net

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  15. Hemos worked for Enron! by ferredoxin · · Score: -1, Troll
    He was buddies with Andrew Fastow in high school, where the two ran a small-time pondzi scheme that defrauded 31 of their former classmates and teachers of over $9200 in cash, valuables, and illegal drugs.

    Afer nearly seven months of operation, and only six weeks until their graduation, the law began to close in on the duo. To escape justice, Fastow convinced Hemos to perform fellatio on their high school principal, Steve Bucholtz.

    Hemos also performed fellatio on Fastow and Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda several times after the incident.

    In college, Hemos and Fastow founded Enron, and used the same tactics to expand their energy-trading business to a well-respected multi-national enterprise that operated in 38 states, 7 countries, and in Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda's anus.