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Should a question poster include the Boost Software License?

I think the code subject to the license is in the poster's GitHub repo and not included in the question (it is only referenced via #include statements). … Is it necessary or desirable to include this license text? …
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Can I put my code on a third party site and link to the site in my question?

Is it OK if I write a question and include a link to GitHub/Pastebin/other similar site instead of putting the code here on Code Review? …
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Can I request reviews of my unittests and where should that go?

The project and its testing module have separate github repos that I'll include in both posts, so that reviewers have access to the tools I do. …
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Is it possible to get feedback on the structure of an application (with code posted)?

To be clear, when posting to not-meta-Code-Review-Stack-Exchange, I'll include code directly (not link to GitHub or other website) Take care of the character count, and split into two posts if needed … In its current form, everything will be "compiled" by PyInstaller into one-file stand-alone executables for the end-user using GitHub Actions. …
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Review code on Github?

(See also: Questions should include a description of what the code does) Code Review community on GitHub is meant for showing what clean code is, and not for reviewing dirty code. … Most of the code publicized on GitHub has already been reviewed on Code Review. …
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Do I have to include the dependency codes while posting my code?

No, you do not need to include all the dependencies of your code when posting it for review. But doing so can be helpful. … If you do not include all the code dependencies in your question, it is good if you either link to a Github repository that does include everything to make it fully runnable, or if you explain a bit what …
Simon Forsberg's user avatar
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Requesting a review of part of a small project

Post the relevant code you want reviewed and include a link to the GitHub repository. … You may include additional code you don't want reviewed, if you think it will help reviewers (for example, it might be easier than reading two tabs in parallel). …
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Edit dispute - Indentation on questions

OP had issues with our rules, first having to edit to include the relevant parts (instead of 1 link to github, more github links) and the later pasting the code in (in one edit) The GitHub link, when followed …
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Is it off-topic to ask for test cases ("use cases")?

If you write some tests and include them with your code, I feel sure (and from personal experience) that someone will suggest some tests/cases you may have missed. Here is an example. … good place to ask for someone to just give you tests It's probably better to search for code that does something similar to your code, and look at their tests, there is plenty of open-source code on Github
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Is it appropriate to ask for review on an entire GitHub repo?

Your question would get closed quite quickly, with a dedicated close reason, stating: Questions must include the code to be reviewed. … Link to GitHub is only provided as a convenience to reviewers that might want additional/complete context. Read the link for the whole reasoning, and/or any of the linked questions @Simon provided. …
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How should I include resources (images, videos, audio, etc) in questions?

Expanding on the existing answer: If your code depends on data, include the schema or an illustrative example of that data. … For me the ideal post would: include all source code include markdown tables to describe your data, or if it is not tabular then screenshots and descriptions embed any other images etc that constitute …
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Concern about people using my poor quality code that was reviewed rather than a fixed version

The usual solution to this is to include a link to the repository you're working in (example), with a small text that the code behind that link is the up-to-date version. … This is a different situation than people linking to their GitHub for the full code if they've only provided an extract for review (which also happens, and is acceptable as long as the important parts …
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Reviewing unoptimized code in public repo. Are these type of question appropriate?

To draw attention on a specific issue and function and provide an URL to the public code in GitHub No. The question on Code Review must include the code you want reviewed in the question itself. … If you include those parts in a question and the project is written by you, then yes. …
Simon Forsberg's user avatar
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Encouraging the community to edit the question to maintain a list of external resources

If you want to keep the list updated, then creating a GitHub, SourceForge or BitBucket repository will be better equipped for that. … If you want to make the repository and edit your post to include a link to it then that's fine. …
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Handling things that seemingly *every* new writer of a language gets wrong

We were going to share common improvements on GitHub. But we've not got much there. Explaining everything is long. And I don't think everyone wants to know why. … And so if you merge this with (1) you could just include a link to the information why, and not suffer any reduction in quality in your answers. …
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