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Welcome to Software Development on Codidact!

Will you help us build our independent community of developers helping developers? We're small and trying to grow. We welcome questions about all aspects of software development, from design to code to QA and more. Got questions? Got answers? Got code you'd like someone to review? Please join us.

Posts by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Editing tags failed?

This is weird: I tried to edit the tags on your post to see if I could reproduce it, and the editor showed the C++ tag there even though the post did not show it. I deleted and re-added it and sav...

posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A How can I find git branches where all branch-local commits are from specific people?

We have a bunch of dead branches in our git repository, and I'd like to clean them up. Ones that were merged (but not deleted at the time) are easy; we can see those in the branch list on Bitbucke...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Alexei‭

Question git git-branch
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Meta Enable text-area for comments to be resized

The comment box is now resizable; drag the control in the lower right corner down to make the area bigger. -- Update: With the later introduction of threaded comments, the comment box lost its re...

posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A How should we share some content between two otherwise-independent git repositories?

I was discussing this problem again with some coworkers, and one of them said "QA has that problem too -- here's what we're doing about it". At its core, having everybody add lots of tests to the ...

posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Cannot close a question as a duplicate due to "Invalid input for other post" error

Codidact doesn't support cross-community duplicates, like closing a question in a per-community meta category as a duplicate of a question on main Meta. However, our messaging there could be, uh, ...

posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Add link dialog should capture enter

This was a tricky one to diagnose, but it's fixed now. Thanks for the report.

posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Growing software.codidact

Speaking personally (not as a Codidact admin): One low-key way to promote this community there is to cite it in answers. If you see a question there that you want to answer, see if it's here too....

posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A How can I generate documentation from comments in SQL DDL?

I have some SQL scripts that contain DDL to create tables and schemas for a database. I'd like to be able to comment this SQL and then use those comments to generate output documentation (in HTML)...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Who should the moderators be?

I nominate Lundin, who is very active on main and meta, has proposed some initiatives on meta, and is well-positioned to help us firm up sometimes-fuzzy scope and help this young community grow.

posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Who should the moderators be?

I nominate Alexei, who has a body of well-received posts on Q&A and meta, both asking and answering, and seems interested in helping to organize and expand this fledgling community.

posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Should we have a Code Review Section / category?

Proposal, based on the feedback here so far: because code-review questions have special rules, create a category. This allows (and we would need proposed text from the community for): Category d...

posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A How do I configure Jenkins to strip the leading “origin/” in git branch parameter?

For the git branch parameter, set Branch Filter to: origin/(.*) I found the parentheses to be counter-intuitive, because if you don't specify a filter you get: .* (No parens.) If you are filteri...

posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A How do I configure Jenkins to strip the leading “origin/” in git branch parameter?

I'm using Jenkins with a branch parameter to specify the branch to build from. Other stuff downstream needs the branch name to not have the leading "origin/" -- just "feature/blahblah" or "bugfix/1...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

Question regex git jenkins
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Meta Who should the moderators be?

As we have set up communities here on the Codidact network we've been appointing temporary moderators. Usually some people stand out from the proposal process and early activity. Ultimately, of c...

3 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Do we want a wiki (or similar) alongside Q&A?

In addition to Q&A, Codidact supports another post type, article. Articles can be used for blog posts, wiki pages, and other resources. Articles, like questions, use tags, so searching for a ...

5 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Meta How can I fill in tag information?

I've just lowered the reputation requirement for both Edit and Edit Tag from 250 to 200. If folks here want it to be lower -- young communities have different needs, after all -- please make a met...

posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Long code lines are not wrapped

Code blocks that are wider than the column they're trying to fit in now get horizontal scrollbars. As noted in another answer, it's not safe to assume that line-wrapping won't change the correctne...

posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A How should we share some content between two otherwise-independent git repositories?

We have two teams, dev and doc, and I'd like them to have shared access (via git) to a common subset of content. Specifically, I would like the examples that are used in the doc and that are scrip...

4 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Can regular users add tag wikis? And what are the guidelines for creating them?

Editing tag descriptions is a privilege, currently based on reputation. (Changes to the privilege system are coming, but not yet.) The threshold is currently set at 250 rep. I recognize the boot...

posted 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta "Software Development" to the exclusion of other programming and scripting?

It's meant to include all programming and scripting. By calling it Software Development we wanted to convey that it's not just code but also those other things. I'll adjust the description of the...

posted 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Welcome to Software Development!

Welcome to the Codidact site for Software Development! We're glad you're here and we're excited to see what you will build. This community is starting "from scratch", without importing Q&A fr...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭