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Past core maintainers

Last updated on
12 May 2026

We would like to thank these previous maintainers for their past contributions.

The list the current maintainerswho actively perform the roles described in the core governance overview is found in core/MAINTAINERS.txt. For Drupal 7 and earlier the list was in MAINTAINERS.txt. The active maintainers build on the work of many more past maintainers and other contributorswho have made Drupal into what it is today.

Core committers

Drupal 8

Drupal 7

Drupal 6

Drupal 5

Drupal 4.7

Subsystem maintainers

Actions

Aggregator

Ajax

Asset Library API

Authentication and Authorization

Automated Cron

Ban

Bartik

Base system

Basic Auth

Batch API

BigPipe

Block

Block Content

Blog

  • James Walker 'walkah' (Drupal 4.4, Drupal 4.5, Drupal 4.6, Drupal 4.7, Drupal 5, Drupal 6)

Book

Bootstrap

Breakpoint

Cache

CKEditor 4

CKEditor 5

Claro

Classy

Coding Style Checker

  • Alexander Schwartz (Drupal 4.4, Drupal 4.5, Drupal 4.6)

Color

Comment

Configuration API

Configuration Entity API

Configuration UI

Configuration Translation

Contact

Content Moderation

Content Translation

Contextual

Cron

CSS

Database API

MySQL DB driver

PostgreSQL DB driver

Sqlite DB driver

Database Logging

Database Update API

DateTime

DateTimeRange

Debian package

  • Hilko Bengen (Drupal 4.4, Drupal 4.5, Drupal 4.6, Drupal 4.7, Drupal 5)

Distributed Authentication Modules

Dynamic Page Cache

Editor

Entity API

Extension API

Field API

Field UI

File

Filter

  • Daniel F. Kudwien 'sun' https://www.drupal.org/u/sun (Drupal 7, Drupal 8)
  • Steven Wittens 'unconed' (Drupal 4.5, Drupal 4.6, Drupal 4.7, Drupal 5, Drupal 6)

Form API

Forum

Garland

History

Hypertext Application Language (HAL)

Help

Image

Inline Form Errors

Installer

Interface Translation (locale)

JavaScript

JSON:API

Language

Lock

Mail

Markup

Migrate

Migrate (Drupal)

Menu

  • Károly Négyesi 'chx' https://drupal.org/u/9446 (Drupal 5, Drupal 6, Drupal 7, Drupal 8)
  • Richard Archer (Drupal 4.7)
  • Jonathan Chaffer (Drupal 4.5, Drupal 4.6)

Menu UI

Node

Node Access

Number

Olivero

OpenID

Options

Outside In

Overlay

Page Cache

Path

Plugin

Poll

  • Andrei Mateescu 'amateescu' (Drupal 8) (2012 - 2013)

Queue

Quick Edit

RDF

Render API

Request Processing

REST

Responsive Image

Routing

Serialization

Settings tray

Seven

Shortcut

SimpleTest

Stable

Stark

Statistics

Syslog

System (module)

Taxonomy

Telephone

Text Field

Theme API

Token

Toolbar

Tour

Tracker

Translations

Transliteration

Typed Data

Update UI

Umami

User

Views

Views UI

Workflows

XML-RPC system

Topic maintainers

Accessibility

Documentation

Performance

Testing

Usability

Security team lead

Initiative coordinators

Configuration management

Design

HTML 5

Layout Initiative

Mobile

Multilingual Initiative

Out-of-the-Box

PHPUnit Initiative

Web services

Core mentoring coordinators

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