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Site scope - draft proposal

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?](https://software.codidact.com/questions/278648).
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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.

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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.
- Software tools used for programming.
- Database management and administration, including tools and languages used for such.
- Web design, including 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.

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