During the course of the usability meeting the concern was voiced that the target audience of Project Browser might have issues understanding the Drupal issue queue specific terminology used in the context of the filter component. Does someone really understand what any of that means if you are like a site builder being new to Drupal and you open Project Browsers filter section for the first time and look at these available filter types & filter options?
You look at Development Status and see Active and Show all. Then there is something called Maintenance Status with the option Maintained. There is no indication what any of that means in context for someone new to Drupal. In regards of the Security Advisory Coverage it might be possible to make an assumption what that label might imply, but again it is really unclear what any of these might exactly stand for, for someone unfamiliar with Drupal. If you are someone who has worked with Drupal before you’ll probably understand.
For the record the issue was identified and initially discussed during #3312892: Drupal Usability Meeting 2022-10-07 → . The issue has a link to the recording of the meeting. The attendees were @AaronMcHale, @benjifisher, @narendraR, @rkoller, @shaal, @simohell, @srishtiiee, @Utkarsh_33, and @worldlinemine.
Go to /admin/modules/browse and expand the Filters section
We haven’t come up with a proposed solution during the meeting. There was only a consensus that those terms need an explanation in some way.
But there was the recommendation to research how accurate the lables Development Status and Maintenance Status are? We were not sure if module maintainers always keep those up to date? It might be a sort of a chicken and egg problem. If someone is maintaining a module and looses interest then the odds are high that it might be forgotten to change the status from active to inactive.
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