Deprecated - Drupal.org infrastructure

Is it possible to get a mail if someone post a reply to one of my messages in the forum? This way I would be able to respond a lot faster.

It'll be good if there a way to rate topics in this forum.. something like a 5 stars.

When an issue is resolved should it be set to fixed or closed?

This is more a support question than an infrastructure issue, but I figured this would be the best place to get some answers. I'm trying to setup a website for another open source project and I want to be able to setup different project types and categories in the same way that drupal.org is setup. I've not really had much experience with the project.module, but I assumed this would be fairly straight forward. Can anyone explain how the drupal.org has it configured?

my first month with drupal has been murder, but i'm not giving up. i wish there were hundreds of profile installations to choose from. but until then, what about setting up a voting system for modules? this would be a great resource for newcomers who could get an overview of tried & tested modules for specific tasks without drowning in the ocean of technicalities contained in the forums. you could have novice friendly categories like "image handling", "user profiles", "forums", "multimedia", and then a small list of the most popular modules used for that task & the nr of votes.

I'm not sure whether there's another post about this or I'm the only one seeing this, but the modules don't seem to be showing when browsing by category and also by date. The browse by name is working fine though.

Anyone else seeing this?