The "Performance" settings are under "Development" - changing cache options are not inherently a developer task, and certainly clearing the cache is not.

Site Information is under Reports/Site Configuration rather than the main config tab.

There are a number of places where someone new to Drupal (or even someone familiar with D6) would have no idea where to find anything.

This issue may be a candidate for novices.

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kwinters’s picture

kwinters commented
Issue tags: +Usability

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Bojhan’s picture

Bojhan commented
Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

Although cache, might not necessarily be a Developer task - the rest of the options do seem to be that way. I am sory, but if you dispute Performance beign under Development it might be worthwhile reading up the rationale on #546962: Configuration page: Development category. Development doesn't say "Developer only".

Anyway, to me it seems rather useless to discuss what a user might and might not understand. Without actual users. Especially on something as critical as this, I trust that since it didn't clearly popup at the few usability tests - it is not occurring to often.

Site information is under Reports? No its not?

kwinters’s picture

kwinters commented

Most of the problems at the time I opened this have been fixed.

However, I'd still say that "Maintenance Mode" is not a development task, but rather a system administration task. It's only even relevant once you have a live site, and site admins bring sites down for maintenance for reasons other than code updates.

I'd also say that Performance falls into the same boat (it contains setting that are primarily used for live sites), but less clearly so and it's not important enough to argue about.

kwinters’s picture

kwinters commented
Status: Closed (works as designed) » Fixed

Changing status to fixed, since everything is either fixed or has a separate issue at this point.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)
Issue tags: -Usability

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

Issue tags: +Usability

Restoring issue tags, see #2125755: System messages removed all issue tags during D7 upgrade.