I think in this case (of maintainers list being shown above the actual list of issues), that that's a developer-centric goal more than a user-centric goal.

Most people already have all sorts of anxiety about "I'm not as good as that." I think the maintainers list could tend to reinforce the star power of a few people, but that's a whole psychological question.

A note that I'd rather look at the issue queue itself than a maintainers summary to decide whether to use a module.

Anyhow, strong vote here for the issues links having a higher priority than the list of top maintainers. 

The maintainers list is useful! It's good. But why give links that FEW people will click on a higher listing than links that MANY people will click on? It  doesn't make sense.

Margie

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 3:32 AM, Gábor Hojtsy <gabor@hojtsy.hu> wrote:
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 3:07 AM, Margie Roswell <mroswell@gmail.com> wrote:
> I decided that I like it. Though I think it would be better if the
> Maintainers block were listed below the other two issue blocks. The Issues
> block is the far more important one for most users, and shouldn't risk being
> too far "below the fold" on mobile devices.

Well, the redesign goal is to get people featured: show that there are
many individuals working on these projects (bug community); show that
they worked recently on the project (or not), and so on. These help
show that Drupal is a community and help users to decide whether a
project is active or not. This will not be the only way which help
people make decisions in module selection, but is part of that.

Gábor



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