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I think that this would be good. "Programmers" has always confused me. "Software engineering" is much clearer.
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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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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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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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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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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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(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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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, ...
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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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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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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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