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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. Server51 not a ripoff. by chrisd · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Hey, so as one of the people around during the time, it was not the majority view that Server51 was a ripoff of sf. I can only speak for myself of course, but I never felt that way. People have the smae good ideas all the time.

    Chrisd

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    Co-Editor, Open Sources
    Open Source Program Manager, Google, Inc.
  2. 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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  3. I really hoped this would not be posted by bigdisk · · Score: 5, Funny

    I really hoped this interview was going to die and disappear. I said a lot more than I intended. Steve can get a lot through flattery.

    May the ddos against osdir continue...

  4. 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.

  5. Sharp Launched their SourceForge Today by perlow · · Score: 5, Interesting

    On a related note, Sharp Electronics launched ZAURUS.COM today, which includes a Sourceforge 2.5 based custom implementation designed by Tony Guntharp, Tim Purdue's colleague in the original SourceForge project.