Ping Me, Please!

There is a big difference between distributed and collocated teams: thecommunication in distributed teams is asynchronous, which essentiallymeans that when you ask something, a response doesn���t arriveimmediately. Moreover, it may never arrive. This can be veryuncomfortable for those who are used to the office work setup, wheremost communications are synchronous: any question is answeredimmediately, one way or another. In open-source repositories,everything is asynchronous. Here is a sim...