I understood that the problem is the company not willing to do support anymore - ergo, they're not expending any resources on gathering developers to help. You see, you need expend employee's time in order to look for help out there: you can not find what you don't look for.

And, if you don't know, Source Force is not a web site hosting service. It's a full blown software development infrastructure. Code repository, communication, releasing, bug tracking, support.

BitBucket is nice, and the integration with JIRA works nice.

But that SourceTree tool of them... Jisuiz. The Mac version crashes all the time - sometimes I just go for gitk =P

"Fork" the thing on SourceForge or similar service. SYNC the repos and web pages there over the time while trying to gather collaboration.

Perhaps you can manage to get there what your company doesn't. At very least, this will guarantee the project's surviving when your company shuts the support down.

At very worst, you'll have a way to save the project's source code and documentation to posteriority when the company support ends.

In the mean time, you can negotiate a hand over to Apache, GNU or any other Open/Free Software Foundation.

See for yourself.

Well... I was a really great person to work with. For 4 months. And I regret every single day. And the project's stakeholders too.

It's not pretty. It's not nice. But it worked.

I'm not proud of it. But I would do it again if needed without a second thought.

I'm an asshole? Probably. But this asshole here is going to put food on the employee's table. And mine's too.

"Never, ever work for me, asshole".

Happy now? :-)

Unfortunately, it works well for me.

I spent 4 months trying to be polite and respectful - only to see my project going through the tubes.

It was only when I got pissed off and, literally, attacked verbally some (well deserved, by the way) key people that things started to get done.

I yelled, I cursed, I became blatantly offensive - including, sadly, some other people that didn't deserved (neither had the temper to hold it).

However, now I have control over the project. Things are getting done, deliverables are getting delivered. And my only other real regret (besides yelling to whom didn't deserved it) is that I took too long to get mad. One month earlier, and I would had managed to deliver the project on the proper due date (and got some more sleeping nights).

If you are really committed into delivering good products, the decision about how you behave doesn't belongs to you anymore: you will do what you have to do to get shit done.

Of course we think we are the civilized part of the world.

We destroyed every other candidate in the last centuries!

discover verb \dis-k-vr\
: to see, find, or become aware of (something) for the first time

Our civilization became aware of the land to be known as America thanks the Norwegians, Columbus (officially) and as it appears, Marco Polo.

The humans that used to live there was not part of the current European centric civilization - au contraire, we dizimate this ancient, previously stablished civilization and took his place.

Believe-me: giving them the "credit" for discovering America is adding Offense to the Injury.

Since I'm not a native American descendant (my grandfathers are all Italian and Spanish - all but a gran-gran-grandfather from Portugal), from my point of view, yep - Columbus, the Norwegians and perhaps Marco Polo are the ones to give the trophy.

We are the prevalent civilization. It's harsh, it's rude, it's politically incorrect, but it's true nevertheless.

You don't read much, do you?

Patentes are paid because it's cheaper to pay them that to not. Once your business grow up enough, you see yourself paying to much that it starts to pay up fighting the patents.

It's just about value, nothing about worth.

Not even these. :-)

Now we can rest assured that our extinction will happen by the continuous burning of fossil fuels, not by the lack of it!

Yes, it is. :-)

The escalade of violence it's something that can happen, yes. Mainly, in no law lands, where there's no authority to settle things down.

What you fails to recognize is that bullying is about opportunity and unaccountability. Bullies do what they do because they can do it unchecked. The system FAILED to prevent the escalade of violence done by bullies.

Some people never learns. You have to force them to behave. Granted, they have rights by them own, so we can't just kill them, lock them, or anything nasty and gross like that.

No. I'm a brazilian already fed up of people that thinks like you playing havoc with our public safety policies. BE ADVISED, THIS VIDEO SHOWS REALLY STRONG CONTENTS (blood and murderer)- WATCH IT UNDER DISCRETION.

And, unfortunately for us, all these killers and bullies already procreated.

(just like me - live with that)

it appears to be a very predatory way of doing business on my eyes.

I remember an article I read on the late 80's or early 90's about how some small companies of that era feared growing too fast and ended up catching the attention of Microsoft, that at that time was buying everything and everybody (prices are pretty lower at that times). Building something cool that Microsoft would need was the fastest way of going out ot business.