Contributing to a software project requires a multitude of different kinds of awareness, ranging from high-level status information (e.g., What is the overall status of the project? What are the current bottlenecks?) to more fine-grained information (e.g., Who else is working on the same file right now and has uncommitted changes? Who is affected by the source code I am writing at the moment?). Awareness includes both short-term, momentary awareness (awareness of events at this particular point in time, such as the current build status) and long-term, historical awareness (awareness of past
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