Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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Hashicorps is now sponsoring DevOps: Sorry there wasn't a head's up
Why don't processes ever go on a road trip?
Because they're afraid of breaking down!
Thank you for that joke Spencer G. Philippe’s influence is rubbing off. Anyway, that is why I am here: cause one of ...
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Middle Sidebar Advertising
As you all know, advertising is an important source of revenue for Stack Overflow and it helps us support all the sites across the Stack Exchange Network and the resources that go into maintaining and ...
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2022: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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What should we do with questions about bugs in programs that are fixed by developers?
If there's a question like this:
known_hosts module reports changed when nothing has changed
Where the OP submitted a bugfix to the developers, which was accepted and fixed - or even in cases where a ...
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Do we need more moderator involvement on the site?
Assuming many users won't read this, but if you do, please chime in, I check in on the site frequently, finding the queue empty and nothing to do and still managed to get an email from Stackexchange ...
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Proposal for mass-migration from StackOverflow?
I'm going to propose that we request for a mass-migration from StackOverflow here, specifically, any question which has one or more of these tags, and no other tags not listed here,
[terraform]
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Splunk will soon be sponsoring DevOps Stack Exchange
We're excited to announce that Splunk will be sponsoring DevOps Stack Exchange beginning July 7th through December 31. We wanted to give you a heads-up and walk you through what it will look like.
How ...
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Merge DevOps into ServerFault? (polite for: close down DevOps SE and find the best SE for the freed Q/A?)
There are few questions from users >200 points on DevOps.
There are on the whole 5000 questions, and new questions get few views and few answers.
I thought using DevOps SE would be better for ...
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2021: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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We've been promoted!
Congratulations to everyone over the past 4+ years who has helped keep this community going including, past and present moderators, queue reviewers, and most importantly all of the contributors! Your ...
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2021 Community Moderator Election Results
DevOps Stack Exchange's second pro-temp moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the two new moderators are:
They'll be joining the existing crew shortly — please ...
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2021 Community Moderator Election
The 2021 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks, ...
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Announcing a Pro Tempore election for 2021
Summary: DevOps Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for a special election on April 26 to bring in two more moderators.
For full details of the process, see the announcement on Meta Stack ...
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Should [cicd] only be used when a question includes both CI and CD explicitly?
I came across this question about a GitHub action in a monorepo and it was tagged with cicd and continuous-integration. Because it involves GitHub actions, it naturally involves CI but not necessarily ...
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What happened in April 2020 on devops.se?
According to site traffic stats, April 2020 seems to mark the start of a decline of this site:
The traffic was roughly steadily climbing (out of each year Christmas and new year), the first dent ...
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2020: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the past 12 months.
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Announcing a site sponsorship for DevOps Stack Exchange
My name is Jascha, and I'm a Product Manager for Advertising at Stack Overflow.
I'm excited to announce that New Relic has generously agreed to sponsor the DevOps site for the upcoming 3 months, as a ...
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DevOps job role's question got closed?
After the question about job role boundaries of a DevOps engineer has been closed, I'd like to share that I feel a strong disagreement and disharmony about that.
Indeed, the question is not of a ...
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I will be inactive for at least one month [closed]
I will be inactive for one month after reading this Q&A https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/392867/2777965 and perhaps I will leave SE.
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What does exactly organic growth mean in context of our site?
In many cases, I hear that an SE site should grow organically. Basically I agree with it. Still I would like to understand which factors do influence that process.
One scenario is for example which I ...
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How to attract practitioners of DevOps as mature member candidates to bring their expertise to our DevOps SE site?
In a related DevOps SE Meta discussion, @Bruce Becker suggested:
.. we might not have enough mature members yet to handle a lot more
traffic, .. [] I do have the impression that practitioners of ...
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Reasons why users join the site but do no ask many questions?
My own experience is that I've started joining Q&A sites mostly to post questions. Though, I kept asking more questions.
Therefore I wonder that we have quite many members, and still growing, but ...
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Call to DevOps SE moderators: migrating unanswered DevOps questions to our site
As I've found out, it's possible under certain conditions to migrate unanswered DevOps questions to our site as lower boundary of the eligibility to do so.
Say migration is from source to target.
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Risk assessment of getting closed during Beta?
I've come across a closed SE site for startups with the claim it was not active enough during Beta.
Comparing it to our site stats (as of Jan 05 2020) gives an unpleasant feeling.
Could we be ...
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2019: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, ...
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What does the community think about requesting SO and SF to include DevOps to one of the migration options? [duplicate]
I created two Q&As to ask SO and SF to include DevOps to the migration options? Does DevOps community agree with this? I think that this could increase the the number of questions that are asked ...
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What to do with questions that do not get any answers?
At the moment there are 391 questions without answers, see https://devops.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=mostvotes&filters=noanswers
According to https://stackoverflow.com/help/no-one-answers ...
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Blatantly off-topic?
Uhm, I am not exactly the most active user here, since most of the stuff I do with any remote connection to devops will be catered by other SE sites (Unix, ServerFault, SuperUser and AskUbuntu come to ...
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Understanding growth of our community vs. user base estimation from other resources
Recently, I've checked for how many DevOps interested people are out there based on other online communities on this topic.
The Reddit r/devops counts about 120K+ subscribers (though related to this ...
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What is our policy on profanity?
Is there a policy on the use of profanity? Since this is a multicultural site, I suspect that the default attitude is "laissez-faire". If there is no such policy do we want one, i.e. a list of banned ...
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Tag suggestion: webhook
I was surprised to find there isn't a webhook tag on the DevOps site. Is this something that should be added?
A webhook tag could apply to many existing questions, including:
Jenkins GitHub ...
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Burninate [development-environment]
development-environment has no tag wiki and only 8 questions, none of which seem related to each other. Should we get rid of it?
(I'm vaguely aware that burninations are generally requested for tags ...
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2019 Community Moderator Election Results
DevOps's first moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied and the two new moderators are:
They'll be joining the existing crew shortly—please thank them for ...
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2019 Community Moderator Election
The 2019 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
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Most elections take between two and three weeks,...
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Announcing a Pro Tempore Moderator election
Summary: DevOps Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for a special election on September 23 to bring in two more moderators.
For full details of the process, see the announcement on Meta ...
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Time to step down and let this be
It took me a while to make my head around this, but I feel it's time for me to leave.
We had a bunch of talks at the beginning on what this site would be about and around moderation in general.
I'...
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How does a beta StackExchange site become non-beta? [duplicate]
What are the parameters which are taken into consideration when deciding that a certain site is needed?
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Extrem Feedback Devices
Are Extrem Feedback Devices and Software which are used to create them (Dashboards etc.) considered on-topic?
It feels like it could be because it can and will help Users in the scope of DevOps (...
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How many questions is too many?
I noticed a single user posting a lot of Docker-related questions in the past few days. Is this behavior acceptable or is it considering flooding? If that's the case, I could manage to convince him to ...
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Are issues related to DevOps literature and educational materials on-topic on this site?
I reviewed the answers in the Help Center and didn’t notice any restrictions on literature, technical documentation, training materials or resources for training and professional growth in this area.
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Do all Docker-related questions belong to DevOps?
I'm relatively new to devops.stackexchange.com and I already asked a couple of Docker-related questions. But before asking, I always wonder if I should post here, on stackoverflow, on serverfault on ...
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2018: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in ...
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Are Product Recommendation questions on topic?
Most SE sites I participate in have sections in the help documentation and close options to make "product recommendations" off topic for the site. These sorts of questions are often opinion based and ...
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New tag request: binary repository manager
We talk about all possible DevOps tools using their product names but at least in the case of the Ivy/Artifactory/Nexus.. product family there is a term I find descriptive and neutral enough:
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VSTS has been renamed to Azure Devops
The meta.SO has already addressed the proposed resolutions, but I think the outcome should be reflected here to avoid confusion.
https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/373920/vsts-has-been-renamed-...
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What can we do to have more debates about devops.se policies?
Lately the engagement on meta.devops.se has been quite low, the last question where I would have hoped to see other feedback than mine is What is the cross posting policy on DevOps?.
It only gathered ...
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Beta progress indicator "2.5 answers per question"
In DevOps, for sure more than one solution approach can be possible to a given problem, however while questions are required to be very narrow and not allowing opinions, this creates in my ...
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What is the cross posting policy on DevOps?
Cross posting tends to be frowned upon on SE sites. I recently had a flag declined for "flags should only be used to make moderators aware of content that requires their intervention" on this question....
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Assessing DevOps & Data Science and vice versa topicality
First, to review the definitions from Wikipedia.
DevOps - DevOps is a software engineering culture and practice that aims at unifying software development (Dev) and software operation (Ops). The main ...
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Will this DevOps Q&A site ever graduate?
I really worry whether this Q&A site will ever become official as the number of visitors dropped significantly the last two week, from more than 1000 to less than 10 a day. Do other people have ...
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