Timeline for Suggestions for revising the "on-topic" policy for programming questions
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| Feb 20, 2023 at 13:16 | history | edited | BeastOfCaerbannog | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
removed "initial" since the proposal in its current form has incorporated feedback from other users and it's not the original one
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| Feb 19, 2023 at 15:31 | history | edited | NotTheDr01ds | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Incorporated feedback @andrew.46
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| Feb 18, 2023 at 5:25 | comment | added | andrew.46 Mod | @NotTheDr01ds And perhaps also this: 'questions are better suited for Stack Overflow...' could become: 'questions are usually better suited for Stack Overflow...' for the same reason as above. | |
| Feb 18, 2023 at 5:24 | comment | added | andrew.46 Mod | @NotTheDr01ds The smallest suggestion: Where you have ' may be closed here...' could you add emphasis / italics to make it: ' may be closed here...' I am keen to avoid a wholesale closing of all such questions and this might alert the keen close voter to think a little more :) | |
| Feb 10, 2023 at 15:29 | comment | added | NotTheDr01ds | @Zanna "In practice I don't think we migrate to SO." - Fair enough. Removed "migrated" from the wording based on that. | |
| Feb 10, 2023 at 15:28 | history | edited | NotTheDr01ds | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 10, 2023 at 15:26 | comment | added | NotTheDr01ds | @Zanna Agreed, I usually use a similar comment. As for the on the help-topic, though, I think it accurately conveys what we are trying to say. If a question is off-topic here, but on-topic on [site], then it is inherently "better suited to [site]", right? ;-) | |
| Feb 10, 2023 at 13:20 | comment | added | Zanna Mod | ... that the question is not going to be answered. In such cases I write something like Your question is on topic here, but it might be more likely to get an answer on [site]. If you want to ask there instead, you can flag it and ask for migration... | |
| Feb 10, 2023 at 13:14 | comment | added | Zanna Mod | I somewhat disapprove of comments of the form this question is better suited to [site] because if the question is on topic here, we should just answer it, and if it is not on topic here, we should close it and comment this question is off topic here, but it is on topic on [site]. If one feels inclined to comment this question is better suited to [site], then there is probably a problem with the scope of the site, and we should be fixing it. I appreciate that fixing stuff is hard and there may be an interim period when one feels inclined to write such comments because one fears ... | |
| Feb 10, 2023 at 13:11 | comment | added | Zanna Mod | In practice I don't think we migrate to SO. It is much more famous and discoverable than our little site and people posting general programming questions here instead of there are usually found to be doing so to evade a question ban. | |
| Feb 10, 2023 at 11:21 | history | edited | NotTheDr01ds | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Incorporated guidance from Zanna's answer
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| Feb 10, 2023 at 8:24 | history | edited | Artur Meinild | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added "developing software for use with Ubuntu"
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| Feb 9, 2023 at 3:17 | comment | added | andrew.46 Mod | @NotTheDr01ds One of the sins of migrating questions (apart from the big one of migrating crap) is to dump a question on another site where either the OP then ignores it completely or worse does not even have a presence there. However your version looks better than mine :) | |
| Feb 9, 2023 at 1:48 | comment | added | NotTheDr01ds | However, I do like, (potentially), "Note that general-programming questions are better suited for Stack Overflow and may be closed or migrated and the poster asked to follow-up there." Thoughts? Or just not needed. I mean, if a post is closed or migrated, then it's kind of assumed that they would either need to repost on the appropriate site, or if it is migrated, that they would need to follow up there, right? | |
| Feb 9, 2023 at 1:46 | comment | added | NotTheDr01ds | @andrew.46 "if the original poster undertakes to follow up there" I'll be honest, I've noodled on this one a bit, and I'm still not sure what it would mean :-). Wouldn't we close (or attempt to migrate) regardless of whether or not the OP followed-up? | |
| Feb 9, 2023 at 1:43 | comment | added | NotTheDr01ds | I'm thinking of this WSL question, which was originally closed because it was thought to be a Microsoft error. However, we discovered a few days later in this question that it was a Canonical bug, and a pretty serious one. The same thing can often happen with programming topics, from what I've seen, and since the community-at-large isn't necessary development-focused, it's tough to close based on that. | |
| Feb 9, 2023 at 1:41 | comment | added | NotTheDr01ds | @lofidevops While I like the phraseology of that, my experience (with WSL and Ubuntu, as well as programming) is that it is often not known in advance whether or not Ubuntu expertise is required. This is especially true of the person asking the question, but can also be true of the community and the Mods. | |
| Feb 8, 2023 at 21:49 | comment | added | lofidevops | perhaps "Development topics requiring Ubuntu expertise." ? | |
| Feb 8, 2023 at 4:34 | comment | added | andrew.46 Mod | Suggestion only: Perhaps leaving the door open a little more for an Ask Ubuntu answer and acknowledging that migration does not always work: "Note that general-programming questions are usually better suited for Stack Overflow. If a such a question is not easily answered here on Ask Ubuntu the question may be closed on Ask Ubuntu or migrated to Stack Overflow (if the original poster undertakes to follow up there)." | |
| Feb 8, 2023 at 0:53 | history | edited | NotTheDr01ds | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 7, 2023 at 18:56 | comment | added | Artur Meinild | Sounds reasonable.. 👍 | |
| Feb 7, 2023 at 17:29 | history | answered | NotTheDr01ds | CC BY-SA 4.0 |