Now there is only a simple "Create" link buried near the top of the list of issues for any project.
That's how beginners are supposed to find out how to report a bug or request a feature now.

At the very least I would request the link be changed to:
"Report a bug or request a feature"
and place on its own separate line or else separate from the list of issues, above or below the list.

The people who argued for removing the old 'report a bug' link were mostly developers of large popular modules that get many bug reports and features requests every day and week. Duplicate reports are their major concern.

The vast majority of modules however don't get nearly as much activity. This change makes it much less likely people will successfully be able to report a bug, which can hurt the quality of drupal modules.

The change was made without any usability research or data, but there is related research suggesting it will hurt bug reporting. Research shows click through rates improve for example when you make the text of a link more clear and focused on an action than a vague term like "create". For example people click through more when the "read more" link on teasers is changed to something like "click here to read more" (see ed_readmore module).

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Project: Drupal.org customizations » Project issue tracking
Version: » 5.x-2.x-dev
Assigned: Unassigned » dww
Status: Active » Needs review
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new 329508_theme_issue_query_links.1.patch3.96 KB

The first step towards customizing this on drupal.org is to handle the links in a separate theme function.

I decided to make the patch larger than it otherwise needs to be by indexing the $links array by action verbs, to make it easier to manipulate the link(s) you care about at the theme layer. Tested locally and as expected, all is fine. Any objections from the other project* maintainers?

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aclight commented

Not really an objection, but I don't think "statistics" is an action verb. Do we want to change it to be consistent?

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Status: Needs review » Fixed

Committed to HEAD and DRUPAL-5--2. I'm not going to worry about the internal key "statistics" not being an action verb. ;)

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.