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New Site Name and Scope Proposals
Software Engineering.
I think it's as good a site title as you're going to get. Here's why:
It's not "Programmers," which smacks of people who write teh codez.
Electrical Engineering's name change (...
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New Site Name and Scope Proposals
This answer is to summarize the requests for Stack Exchange in a single post. It is a community wiki, so if something else seems to be a consensus in this thread, feel free to add or edit it.
Name
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New Site Name and Scope Proposals
How happy I am that this day has finally come! These are my suggestions, some similarities to Snowman's answer with certain omissions and value-adds.
Site Name
I favor the new site name, Software ...
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Why was "Why aren't young programmers interested in mainframes?" re-opened?
Thus, questions that are not answerable -- discussions, debates, opinions -- should be closed as subjective.
By and large this is true, but do you ever stop long enough to consider if there is ...
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Follow-Up 2: New Site Name and Scope Proposals
I think that this would be good. "Programmers" has always confused me. "Software engineering" is much clearer.
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Follow-Up 3: New Site Name and Help Center Discussions
When I read this post, my initial thought was, "If I upvote this, will it be interpreted as either (a) 'I approve this on-topic list' or (b) 'I approve further discussions of details'." And honestly, ...
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Follow-Up: New Site Name and Scope Proposals
I Love It
In short, our scope does in fact have a few small edge cases that are well established but relatively uncommon (Eg. software license questions from the perspective of a software engineer, ...
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Follow-Up 2: New Site Name and Scope Proposals
I like Software Engineering as a title over Programmers.
However, I'm not really ok with tagline containing only a reference to 60's-era-introduced, waterfall-type methodology, and also in particular,...
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New Site Name and Scope Proposals
I like maple_shaft's answer, however wanted to write my own for reducing the on-topic page's wall-of-text since it's far too long for a comment on his answer.
What topics can I ask about here?
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Follow-Up 2: New Site Name and Scope Proposals
This proposed tagline and pictorial representation miss the mark in conveying the (current/new) site scope and the new name, "Software Engineering."
While I agree that the site scope should include ...
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Why was "Why aren't young programmers interested in mainframes?" re-opened?
Something came up in the comments on Robert's answer that I'd like to address...
But why should it remain open? Curation of existing content for questions that are off topic, primarily opinion, or ...
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New Site Name and Scope Proposals
Site Name
I've started to come around to the name "Software Engineering".
Although I still have some lingering objections regarding the overuse of the term "engineering" in software development, I ...
Thomas OwensMod
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New Site Name and Scope Proposals
I am a software engineer. I use StackOverflow to solve my daily problems. I am surprised so many are in favor of renaming to Software Engineering, as I can only see it leading to confusion.
I come ...
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I can (and do) certainly back this solution.
I particularly like the idea of getting the site scope over in as few words as possible so that we actually stand a chance of getting people to read them.
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ChrisFMod
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Follow-Up 2: New Site Name and Scope Proposals
(summary of July 29th discussion at Whiteboard)
At help/on-topic page...
...bullets in about list look OK to keep as is:
software requirements
software architecture and design
algorithm ...
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New Site Name and Scope Proposals
Site Name
Software Development
This site is not really about Software Engineering. Naming it so would only attract legions of buzzword-mouthing, non-programmers, wannabe-managers, and unexperienced-...
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Follow-Up: New Site Name and Scope Proposals
Overall, I like it. The name is 100% spot-on. I think the scope statement is 90% there. I don't like dropping the two topics that are on-topic.
I think the most important thing is the site name (and, ...
Thomas OwensMod
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New Site Name and Scope Proposals
Just like most if not all prior answerers I like the current scope of the site as it is. To me, primary reason to participate here is pretty much covered in two bullets in Help Center:
software ...
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Follow-Up 3: New Site Name and Help Center Discussions
Just one thing here:
development methods and practices
requirements, architecture, and design
quality assurance and testing
configuration, build and release management
Isn't testing a development ...
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Follow-Up: New Site Name and Scope Proposals
The goal of the participants on Programmers has always been the same: to have a high-quality Q&A. I think we all agree on what that means; we want to attract professionals to the site, help ...
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Follow-Up 2: New Site Name and Scope Proposals
Has there been any thought given to the "overlapping" sites?
I mean that we will still get some questions that are off-topic and better answered on other sites. Eg Workplace and possibly DBA, ...
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