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Should debugging CI/CD problems caused by coding errors in the software product itself be on-topic?
Debugging CI/CD problems would normally be on-topic on DevOps, according to Can I ask a question about debugging problems in common DevOps tools?.
Would the same be true if the problem are actually ...
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How best to promote the DevOps site?
I've started promoting this site via LinkedIn by writing a pulse post, please do feel free to re-use the words, images and text anywhere you feel it would benefit from it.
How else should we promote ...
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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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Please Add a VSO Tag
Should there be a tag for VSO. My organization exclusively uses the Microsoft stack and so I have questions I would like to tag with VSO to indicate that I'm using Visual Studio Online, as opposed to ...
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Request for application tags (Flask/Redis)
I have a question about my DevOps stack exchange post: Should worker processes of web applications be placed in separate containers?
Flask and Redis constitute important aspects of the question which ...
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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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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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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.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network ...
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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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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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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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Should WinOps be a tag?
Per Wikipedia:
WinOps (a portmanteau of "Windows" and "DevOps") is a term used
referring to the cultural movement of DevOps practices for a
Microsoft-centric view. It emphasizes the use of the ...
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What is/should be our take about code-debugging questions?
As we are in an early stage beta and are still molding our scope and the culture, let's have a string of discussions regarding the same. And, here's one:
Should code debugging questions be welcome ...
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Could someone create a `docker-compose` tag?
The question at "Why is one not allowed to use a Boolean in a docker-compose.yml?" is about docker-compose but there is not such a tag.
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Could someone create a `software recommendation` tag?
DevOps is about culture but is also about tools , I think this site needs to contains questions like "What devOps tools are available for ... ".
Exemple from AskUbuntu.com
A software recommendation ...
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Could existing SE sites help inspire what we might ask here?
I keep struggling (and trying) to better understand what kind of questions would be a good fit (on topic, scope, etc) for DevOps.SE (and I seem to notice from existing questions and comments from ...
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Would it be possible to close questions because of insufficient research effort?
On serverfault it is possible to close questions due to insufficient research:
Requests for product, service, or learning material recommendations
are off-topic because they attract low quality, ...
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Should this question not be protected?
In my opinion this question should be protected as this is a high valued one and the other answers hardly add any value.
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How to close questions that were already answered on another stackexchange site?
It looks like that this Q&A was answered back in the day on StackOverflow. How to close such questions?
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Should "Is Docker right for my use case?" stay open?
The question I'm wondering about is this one.
At first my feeling was that it was a real life practical case where there should be mostly 2 options, Yes or No, and actionnable points to back up the ...
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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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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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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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What tag should be used for tools that harden the platform like ChaosMonkey?
According to Wikipedia, ChoasMonkey is used to test resilience of IT infrastructure. What about creating a resilience or resilience-testing tag? Note: in the mean time this tag has been created and ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Is this Q&A in scope of this stackexchange?
Is this Q&A in scope of this stackexchange site?
On one hand it could be the case as, but on the other hand it is really about how to create a graph based on database records. From the latter ...
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How to check what was the previous tag and why it has been removed?
I am sure that back in the day I added tags to the following questions:
https://devops.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/untagged
It looks like that these have been removed as they have only the ...
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Specific Contributors driving away Community Expansion
I've noticed that the majority of questions right now are being answered by the same couple people (I won't name names).
I think this type of thing is counter-productive for developing a fledgling ...
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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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Are questions about apache and mod_wsgi configuration on topic on DevOps?
I was thinking to ask a series of questions about apache and mod_wsgi configuration, their performance and memory - would this kind of questions be on topic here or ServerFault is a better place?
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Radical cultural change with strict adherence to tradition?
It completely surprises me, how a group of very strict StackExchange traditionalists, who want to adhere to every single rules to the letter, are trying to start a discussion about a radical cultural ...
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What to do with Questions that remain unanswered while they have already been answered?
Although the user indicated that this question has been answered and was asked to post an answer this question keeps on returning into the unanswered tab. How to prevent that this list is growing and ...
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Are sort of DevOps code golfing questions appropriate here?
An example which comes to my mind for some sort of DevOps golfing is to create mostly lightweight Docker image for given functionality, or a compact Swarm setup for a component with minumum but all ...
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Can we create tag [ipfs]?
I'm becoming more active in the community and that comes from being atm working with IPFS and some other devops/sysadmin tools.
Generally speaking I see tasks related with IPFS in Ethereum community ...
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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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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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Limits of Stack Exchange - what to do with useful knowledge lists
For sure is SE for high quality questions.
But where to capture important historic evolvement?
Like, adding CI Theatre to list of DevOps memes.
What are known useful and misleading memes in the ...
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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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Please create tag for [aws-ssm]
May we have a tag created for [aws-ssm]?
I asked a question relating to AWS Systems Manager here, but I can't create a tag without enough reputation.
Ansible to get AWS SSM Parameter Store and fail on ...
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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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Is this a question that would be better suited as a community wiki? [duplicate]
Regarding the question: What are must-read books for DevOps engineer to become a true expert?
I see its being down voted, and I can understand why. However, I personally feel like this would be a ...
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What's wrong with the Pro Tempore Moderators?
As detailed in "Moderator Pro Tempore Announcement", on Apr 3, 2017, there were 3 members assigned to act as temporary, provisional Moderators. At this very moment, Oct 25, 2017, this is what is shown ...
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What is off-topic for the DevOps [closed]
Borrowed from Web Apps meta
I would like this post to be a compilation for the FAQ of what is off-topic for this site. With the purpose to prevent a lot of discussion early on, about what we do or ...
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