Add or remove a Subsystem or Topic maintainer
Add a subsystem or topic maintainer
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As a user with the role “Administer maintainers” in the Drupal Core project navigate to https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal and click “Maintainers”.

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For the maintainer tick "Maintain issues" and “Write to VCS”.
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Scroll to the bottom of the page and select "Update".
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Add the maintainer to the Drupal Core Subsystem and Topic Maintainers google group. This is currently difficult. The member name may not match the Drupal user name.
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Select 'People -> Members' from the menu on the left of the page.
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Add the maintainer to the subsystem and topic maintainer private slack channel, core-maintainers.
Remove a subsystem or topic maintainer
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As a user with the role “Administer maintainers” in the Drupal Core project navigate to https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal and click “Maintainers”.

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If the person does not have other roles that require the "Maintain issues" and “Write to VCS” permissions, then un-tick those permissions. The other roles may be a different subsystem, topic or being a mentor.
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IF the person now has no permissions, they can be deleted from the list.
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Scroll to the bottom of the page and select "Update".
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Remove from the Drupal Core Subsystem and Topic Maintainers google group. This is currently difficult. The member name may not match the Drupal user name.
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Select 'People -> Members' from the menu on the left of the page.
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Remove from the maintainer from the subsystem and topic maintainer private slack channel, core-maintainers.
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Add the maintainer to the list of Past core maintainers.
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