Simplify text describing updates in the site status report

Created on 29 October 2017, over 6 years ago
Updated 12 September 2023, 10 months ago

Problem/Motivation

This is a follow-up to #2545520: The same link "available updates" links to two different pages in the same paragraph when there is a problem checking available updates . The following changes were considered out of scope for that issue, especially since changing the text would break existing translations.

See the screenshots for various cases listed in Comment #122 on that issue. Also see Comment #124 .

1. When there is a problem checking for updates (to Drupal core or to contributed modules and themes) the status report includes this text from _update_message_text():

There was a problem checking [available updates] for Drupal.

or

There was a problem checking [available updates] for your modules or themes.

(with the link going to /admin/reports/updates).

We considered using the same text in both cases, removing " for Drupal" or " for your modules or themes".

Proposed resolution

(a) Status Report:

(b) Status Report - no update manager access:

(c) Updates available email:

Remaining tasks

Review how this will affect the Status report and the e-mail generated by update_mail().
Use the simpler text for both cases.
Add before/after screenshots to the issue summary

User interface changes

Before

Status report
TBA
email
TBA
.

After

Status report
TBA
email
TBA

API changes

None.

Data model changes

None.

📌 Task
Status

Needs work

Version

11.0 🔥

Component
Update 

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