How to source on the lesser known sites!! Fossies

Fossies is an open source software archieve. Fossies is not known in the community and few have tried to source in it. Well to do this without worry you need go no further than into your bag of tricks and pull out an old tried and true tool, called x-raying. 

So to source within Fossies you simply need to create an x-ray string, like the one below. 

site:fossies.org java     

If you run the first string above in google you will get the results below

Got to achieve look for change logs to  see who make the changes and email addresses, check out

readme files for emails as well, realizing anyone posting their emails will have been the developers

on the project and you might see the below, notice the arrow pointing to an email address.

If you need more info on X-raying see my blog post http://www.recruitingblogs.com/profiles/blogs/seeing-what-is-really...

Next week we will talk about snapscore