Right now, the project vocabulary is set up to essentially require 2 tiers. Project listing pages (ie. browse by type) list projects by the second tier term. For example, on d.o, for the project type vocabulary we have:
Modules
--Developer
--Media
--Views
--etc.
Themes
Translations

But, a site might want to have the following hierarchy:
Analysis
Graphing
Programming
Visualization

Currently, project can't be set up to "browse by type" when the type is a first tier term. So, in the example above, it wouldn't be possible to browse by type if type=Analysis.

See http://drupal.org/node/192982 for the original idea to make this an issue.

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aclight’s picture

aclight commented

As a reminder, when/if this gets completed, we should indicate the change in the Project module documentation page (http://drupal.org/node/116527) and the Project* FAQ page (http://drupal.org/node/193635#project_item2).

The Fiddler’s picture

The Fiddler commented

This issue is confusing for new users, as evidenced here.

Also, this should probably be documented in the project taxonomy instructions - it is too easy to miss right now.

drumm’s picture

drumm
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Issue summary: View changes
Status: Active » Closed (cannot reproduce)

This has been fixed in Drupal 7, and will not be backported. I removed the FAQ item and marked the documentation page as needs updating.