Coordination of efforts

• Key resource to be coordinated is efforts of programmers

  • E.g., assigning tasks to developers to ensure work gets done and to avoid duplication

• Efforts of active users and co-developers are only slightly coordinated

  • Bug tracking systems help avoid multiple bug reports
  • Multiple co-developers might contribute a fix
  • To-do lists suggest directions for new development, but co-developers might contribute other features

• Core team seems to be more highly coordinated

  • Still studying how core team coordinates efforts