QA: Home / Develop With Drupal

All items in the Develop with Drupal section work and behave as expected, except for the following two:

Download Drupal

Expected behaviour: Link to the download page of the Drupal Core (http://beta.drupal.org/project/drupal)
Behaviour: Link to the general Download section (http://beta.drupal.org/download)

Comment: Several items in the Develop with Drupal section already link to the general Download page, none to the download page for the Core.

48 new projects

Expected behaviour: Clicking the link shows a list with the most recent projects, ordered by Date.
Behaviour: Broken link 'Page not Found'. (Current link: beta.drupal.org/drupal/project)

Comment: It is unclear what is meant with 'new projects', are these the new modules and themes combined? The number 48 doesn't seem to correspond to the new number of modules and themes in beta.drupal.org.

Both should be fixed. Sending back for another round of QA.

Download Drupal
Works as described

48 new projects
No "new projects" Text found. Guess this has been changed to "x new modules".

45 new Modules
Expected behaviour: Clicking the link shows a list with of the last 45 modules added, ordered by Date.
Behaviour: "6204 Modules match your search"
http://beta.drupal.org/project/modules/?filters=type:project_project%20i...

Numbers typography
On the frontpage numbers use a comma as thousands separator: http://beta.drupal.org/
On other pages no separator is used: http://beta.drupal.org/project/drupal
Marc Boulton uses no separation: https://infrastructure.drupal.org/drupal.org-style-guide/prototype/homep...
This is confusing not only because it is different troughout the site but also because using commata as a separator is wrong for half the world. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator#Digit_grouping
Proposal: Use   instead of comma or no separator.

Currently:

* 6,973 modules
* 862 themes
* 3,736 active developers

This Proposal:

* 6 973 modules
* 862 themes
* 3 736 active developers

Thanks s.Daniel. Agree, we shouldn't use the comma as the thousands separator. Good catch!

That said, I just checked out our traffic to Drupal.org and 26.15% of our visits are from the US, much much higher than the next country which is India at 6.05%.

I think we'll have to leave the comma thousands separator since that's what's going to be expected by the majority of visitors. We also use US English on the site and that probably also reinforces this decision to stick with the comma.

Apart from that, is this issue ready for RTBC?

The "x 45 new Modules" link does not work as expected but I don't know if this issue is the right place for that?
Besides that I think we are rtbc.

The comma separator thing is not a big deal.
Anyways for the record: According to http://drupal.org/node/261978#comment-2187256 + http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DecimalSeparator.svg
Roughly about 60% of drupal.org users are used to a comma separator and 35 % a period.
I'd vote for using half spaces instead of commas if spaces work for Americans as well because it can't be misinterpreted.

Hmm, yeah, when you click "x new modules" you'd expect to see exactly which ones are new... and certainly not "6207 Modules match your search"

Assigning to csevb10 for now ...
Can this filter out only the new modules, and hide the total count?
If that's possible, what about a "new" label next to each module that's counted in the x?

I changed new projects to new modules and changed the link to that page under Download & Extend.

The link on the home page still seems broken. Currently it directs you a list of all modules that just happen to be sorted in creation order.

It's the "6207 Modules match your search" that really confuses after you've clicked the "x new modules" from the home page.

OK, chatted w/ drumm in IRC on this one.

This link is an outlier because it's the only one in the "active" section that shows a count.

Options for launch:

1) link just the word modules in "x new modules"
2) remove the link altogether (but keep the text)
3) remove "x new modules" altogether

I'm suggesting we go with 3, and add it back in when we can provide a custom list of new modules that are somehow labeled 'new' and matches the number on the home page

Merging with #940732: Consider removing less-essential elements from the home page