I typically visit yellowgrass to report a bug. On the home page, I see a list of active projects. But wait, first I have to login. This will take me to my profile page and the list with all the projects is gone. So I have to go back to the home page to select the project and to report the bug. What I like to have instead is a list of projects at my profile page. Not only a list of my projects, but also a list of projects I recently reported bugs for.

Submitted by Guido Wachsmuth on 10 December 2010 at 20:41

The use case in mind when developing YellowGrass’s home page was users that login to see which bugs they were going to fix. I expected issue submission to go via links on project’s website (which directly refer to the issue submission page of the project). Practice shows that by far most issues are reported by registered users. These users indeed have to login first, being redirected to a home page not fit for submitting bugs, to then go back to the start page of YellowGrass, which is in fact also not fit for bug submission. Additionally, I believe that most users do not go to their home page to see which bugs they got assigned, instead, they go to the project roadmap to see which issues need to be fixed first. To a large extend this is probably caused by the size of the projects currently on YellowGrass.

In short: the home page design I had in mind when I wrote it does not work and needs readjustment. I can put a list of projects that the user has submitted issues to on their home page. This would improve usability, but still poses a bootstrapping problem, which might be solved by some project exploration button. Nevertheless, I need to rethink the home page and thus the issue submission and selection process. Any ideas are welcome :p

Done (except for project exploration).