Add a "recent activity" sort next to the existing "latest (official) release" sort

Last release is the date of the last release of the module, not the last updated date of the project page, they are two different things. I am not sure how you identified that the list is outdated if you order by last release, but the apachesolr index is just getting to completion: "97% of the site has been indexed. There are 9871 items left to index." We've started off with an index of a snapshot of the database, and just catching up.

Why is "project page last changed date" == "last updated" a good way to sort projects?

#377208: please bring back modules listed as per any any change (and not just release) happening to them was marked as a duplicate and it assumes that the old "by date" browsing was using all kinds of changes to update the "last modification date" for the ordering. I am not sure that it was a good assumption, but noting it nontheless.

How one would know modules which has development checkins done recently but not yet released?

The new filter by date is different than it was before the upgrade. It is not possible to create a filter by date for D6 modules.

1. The new sort by last release date is absolutely wrong when combined with "Filter by compatibility". It does not check the release date for given Drupal version.

example:
sort by release date and 6.x filter. The http://drupal.org/project/path_blacklist is the 8th on the list when last change in D6 branch was on 2008-Oct-11.

2. The new sort by release date does not check development snapshots.

example:
http://drupal.org/project/biblio module should be on the first page of the list

Pasqualle: #378830: Have core version facet impact the active/available sorts already covers (1).

Hi

some progress with sorting by date (including development snapshots)?

current situation is really awful, I can't see which modules have updated their dev snapshots (that was aprox 70% daily changes in drupal modules)

thanks
Igorik

p.s. I think that priority fot this bug could be critical, but I don't want to change it.

add a new option to the Sort by block. Last dev release

+1 for an additional filter option 'Last dev release"

Time permitting, pwolanin and I are going to add this at the DCDC code sprint. We've got a big list of project + solr issues to work through: #366738-3: Add integration with ApacheSolr for facet-based project browsing

Wrote the code, tested, committed, and deployed on d.o. See #377736: Module filter or sort by release should impact what information is displayed for some related UI problems.