Since I suspect there might be a backlash, and the questions [1] have already started coming in about the change, I wanted to briefly announce/summarize here. As of around 3pm PDT on 2008-10-01, all of the links to directly submit new issues are gone from project nodes on drupal.org. Duplicate issues suck a huge amount of time, and many of us maintainers spend upwards of 1/2 of our effort in our issue queues just marking things duplicate. This is a drain for maintainers, and isn't all that friendly for the end users, either. To help avoid this, we want to encourage people to view the queues and/or search for an existing issue about their topic before submitting a new one. Now, on the project nodes, you have the following issue-related choices: Support * View open issues * View all issues * View all support requests * Search issues * Report a security issue Development * View pending patches * View available tasks Note that the "View all ..." links bring you to a page that includes closed, won't fix, duplicate, etc, to improve the visibility of those issues. The "Report a security issue" link just brings you to the security team page explaining the proper procedure for reporting suspected vulnerabilities (that's been true since #218571 [2]). Every issue query result page still contains a "Create" link to submit an issue for that particular project. So, worst case, this introduces a single additional click. Furthermore, maintainers still have a "Create" link in your "My projects" [3] pages. For background on this change, check out this issue: "#310446: Remove issue creation links from project pages" [4]. Note, it's very easy to change these links (project.module provides a hook, and we're tweaking it via drupalorg.module, so my usual complaints about keeping things generic for the non-d.o use cases don't apply). So, if people have suggestions for improvements, please add them to #310446. Enjoy, -Derek (dww) p.s. I could definitely see the benefit of a "Create a new issue" link that brings you to the "view open issues" page with a drupal_set_message() about "Please look for an existing issue before you create a new one" or something. If folks are in favor of that, please reopen #310446 and let's discuss there. Thanks. [1] http://drupal.org/node/316097 [2] http://drupal.org/node/218571 [3] http://drupal.org/project/user [4] http://drupal.org/node/310446