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Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Software Engineering
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Reconciling software development models: A quasi-systematic review
Journal of Systems and Software
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Open-source software projects are arguably the quintessential example of distributed software development, with their openness to a large pool of world-wide contributors and loose organizational structure. To cope with the demands this openness and fluidity place on the development process, open-source projects have evolved their own methods and organization. This paper looks at the ways some of the major and most successful open-source projects deal with the issue of coordination among their many contributors. Although each of the projects examined here developed some unique practices, there are also significant commonalities. The paper then goes on to indicate some of the problems caused by the existing practices, and put forward some possible approaches to OSS coordination that could make open-source software development more efficient.