Calliope
Fredrik Huitfeldt Madsen, Peter J. Nürnberg · 2005
Open-source development has long passed the state of infancy. With brands such as Apache, Mozilla and Linux, open-source development is becoming a major player on the global software market. Yet, most open-source projects today are using mailing lists as their primary communication channel and the resulting mailing archives as their only source of documentation. Mailing archives typically contain massive amounts of data, and only support simplistic structures, creating problems such as "information overflow". This makes it difficult for the developers to maintain a common direction of their work, causing reduced productivity and eventually loss of developers.