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Site scope - draft proposal [duplicate]
Closed as duplicate by Lundin on Oct 20, 2020 at 10:46
This question has been addressed elsewhere. See: Community feedback: What type of questions can I ask here?
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EDIT: This discussion thread is mostly obsolete now that a new draft has been posted on the site. Please take further discussion & proposals to this meta post instead: Community feedback: What type of questions can I ask here?.
So it would seem that the scope of this site is yet to be defined. It is for now an "everything programming" site. I hope we can narrow it down a lot further. Here is a draft, open for discussion:
On-topic
- Specific programming problems, where the poster includes their own attempts to solve or debug the problem.
- Software design, architecture and modelling.
- Code reviews where the complete code is posted and the poster is asking for a review.
- Use of software tools used for programming or software engineering.
- Database management and administration, including the use of tools and languages used for such.
- Web design, including the use of tools and languages used for such.
- Software life cycle management, including build configurations, version control, documentation, release, deployment.
Off-topic
- Code writing requests, where the poster only presents a problem with no attempts to solve it themselves. These are considered rude and may lead to user suspensions.
- Debug requests with insufficient code posted to answer the question.
- Embedded systems programming, including: microcontroller programming, hardware description languages, RTOS questions, PLC programming. Please ask these questions at https://electrical.codidact.com/ instead.
- The use of computers or software for other purposes than software engineering.
- System/network/server administration.
- Recommendation questions about which tools, libraries or technologies to use or where to find them.
- Questions with artificial requirements that have no practical use, including code obfuscation and code golf.
- Project management questions not specific to software engineering.
- Career/study advice and workplace issues.
- Legal or licensing advice.
Please regard the above post as community wiki and feel free to edit it when there is community consensus in the form of highly up-voted answers to this post.
Is a question about importing data into Excel on topic (as seen here)? This seems like it would fall under "questions ab …
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I propose removing this from the off topic list > System/network/server administration. I am not an expert, but I …
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I don't really see the point of listing specific things as "on topic." Any such list is bound to either be incomplete or …
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> Recommendation questions about which tools, libraries or technologies to use or where to find them. I don't support …
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> Questions with artificial requirements that have no practical use, including code obfuscation and code golf Questi …
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Based on this proposal, I have created a designated section within the Help section: What type of questions can I ask …
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Recommendation questions about which tools, libraries or technologies to use or where to find them.
I don't support this being on the off-topic list.
(I found my way here from the comments on this question. I think it's a fine question, both before and after the recent edits. It is clearly addressed to a set of people I would expect to belong to a software development community, and if I had relevant information, I would have been happy to answer it here in either form. I think in general we on Codidact can be more accepting of exploratory questions like this which aren't expected to have a single universally accepted answer, relative to the status quo on SO where the goal is to chase that green check.)
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