- 🇺🇸United States chrisfromredfin Portland, Maine
Right now we do have a filter of "recommended" or "all" - which isn't quite the granularity here that I think is being asked for. However, I'm not convinced we need/want this level, if we're considering our main target audience are site builders and those new to Drupal. I tend to think the current filter set is adequate, unless someone can point me to some data or research suggesting otherwise.
- 🇩🇪Germany rkoller Nürnberg, Germany
hm back then we were under the impression that it would be possible at some point for the user to decide which version of a module to install within the project browser interface. for example if a module has version 3 as stable and version 4 in beta or alpha a user would be able to exclude the version 4 in beta or alpha since the person only wanted stable releases. that way a filter would made sense. but the user never actually sees the version number of a to be installed module until the install process is finished. therefore i am not sure if such a filter would make sense anymore and in contrast wouldn't lead to further confusions. if you as the user are unable to choose the to be installed version of a module but you have a filter type enabling you to filter for those exact criteria? i would consider that confusing tbh.
- 🇺🇸United States chrisfromredfin Portland, Maine
Presently, the issue is that we're leaving it up to Composer, more or less, to determine what version of a module should be installed - based on what's in your composer.json (i.e. the settings of "prefer-stable" and "minimum-stability" specifically). Since we're not surfacing _that_ configuration to the user (i.e. they can't change those settings in composer.json from the UI), it doesn't make a lot of sense to have them attempt to specify a version. (I could see this happening someday, though.)
I wonder what the minimal increment is that resolves the UX concern - would it be showing the installed version number once it completes? Or before, as a confirmation?
- 🇦🇺Australia pameeela
I'm not in favour of this change, mostly I agree with #6. A few people have pointed out that the meaning might be lost on the target audience, and I must admit even I was not fully aware of the 'full release' terminology. I knew what it meant, but I stopped and thought 'wait is that really what we call it?'
I also don't think the difference is all that meaningful in contrib, as every module maintainer has a seemingly different definition for what is alpha/beta/RC etc. I think it would be an easier sell if there were consistency. It is a long list of options, with honestly not that much distinction and therefore not that much value to the user.
- Status changed to Closed: works as designed
6 months ago 2:53pm 3 July 2024 - 🇺🇸United States chrisfromredfin Portland, Maine
OK, great. I think that was a consensus needed. This will not be in MVP, but we can also look at revisiting it if it causes confusion after a larger-scale release.