@FFrewin has suggested that we improve the What topics can I ask about here wiki page as there is very little information on it.
I know for sure that everyone will have different opinions on what types of questions are suitable for JSE, so it would be great to get everyone's feedback below so we can come to a final consensus and write some information on that page.
Here are some meta questions that have been asked in the past for reference:
Please look around to see if your question has been asked before. It’s also OK to ask and answer your own question.
[TO-DO] Link to meta Topic with Examples of Good and Bad Questions for each category.
Questions asking for extensions recommendations or support may be, or may not be considered on-topic, It depends on the overall context of the question and how it is being asked. Please read the following discussions in our Meta site for more information:
Definitely, if you need support for 3rd party extensions, you should make sure you have first read the documentation, then also exhaust the support channels that are available from the extensions' developers.
In most cases, the following type of questions will be considered as Off-Topic.
[TO-DO] Link to meta Topic with Examples of "Fix-my-code/Work for free" questions.
If your question is not specifically on-topic for $SiteName, it may be on topic for another Stack Exchange site. If no site currently exists that will accept your question, you may commit to or propose a new site at Area 51, the place where new Stack Exchange communities are democratically created.
Prompted by Joomla 4.0 does not save the article with Joomla fields which is (at the time of this post) On Hold for being:
Off-topic: "Questions must be specific to Joomla. Generic questions about web, programming, 3rd party software, servers, hosting etc, even if they are found in the Joomla-sphere, are off-topic. It might be better asked at Stack Overflow or another SE Site. For Joomla Extension Support better use their developers' support channels first. More info: help center"
This is a question that seems to point to a potential bug in the not yet released Joomla 4.
If the most appropriate place to post this issue is on GitHub, I think this guidance should be clearly stipulated in the Help Center and either a new close justification be created or an existing Off-topic justification should me appended with this reason.
Ultimately, we don't want JSE to be an extension of Joomla.org/GitHub's issue reporting process. We don't want Joomla core developers to have to comb the questions here for issues there.
I guess a minor adjustment would be to rephrase as:
If it's the latest or a not-yet-released Joomla version, then use Joomla.org and report there what you have found. ...or GitHub?
and the message displayed on the closed page should reflect this condition.
A few more things...
Overly complex or specific things.
This seems like it is very subjective and potentially unfair.
If a question is overly complex, but sufficient details have been provided so that the question is not Too Broad, then we shouldn't deflect "tricky" questions.
If a something is very specific, and the question provides sufficient details to make the issue reproducible, then it should be fair game.
Generic PHP/MySQL/CSS/JavaScript/jQuery/TinyMCE issues and development (even if Joomla is based on these technologies)
I don't see a lot of questions being closed for this reason and I think this is a good thing. It will only encourage more growth in the community if there aren't too many rigid restrictions on Joomla-associated questions. Furthermore, since we want Joomla users to search for Joomla-related issues here, I think it is a good idea to grant some lenience on this point so that researchers have a better chance of finding a solution here.
