Common Communication Routes
Since nearly every free and open source project has contributors spread all over the world, communication is vital to success. Over the decades, FOSS has evolved a series of tried and true communication routes that enable efficient, persistent, and effective communication across a variety of use cases. These routes fall into three basic categories: entirely asynchronous (email, issue tracking), semi-asynchronous (real-time chat), and synchronous (audio/video calls, in-person meetups). Chapter 7, Interact with the Community goes into detail about each of these communication routes.
For some FOSS projects, the selection and use of communication routes fall into that bucket of Very Strong Opinions that I mentioned ...
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