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How project moderators handle reports of unsupported projects

Last updated on
7 May 2026

In the following page, project maintainers will be generally used to refer to people with permissions on the project who are expected to handle the issues created to become project owner, maintainer, or co-maintainer.
In the specific, project maintainers means:

  • For requests to become project owner or take over a project namespace, it means the project owner.
  • For offers to become co-maintainer/maintainer, it means a maintainer (including the project owner), or a co-maintainer with the Administer maintainers permission.
  • For issues created to verify the project is still maintained/developed, it means people with the Write to VCS permission. 

When a report for an unsupported project is moved to the Drupal.org project ownership queue, project moderators will:

  • Verify the issue has been first open in the project issue queue and left there at least 14 days

  • Verify there are no other reports open for the same project (even in the project issue queue)

If those conditions are not met, the issue is moved back to the project issue queue (in the first case) or the newer issue (or the one without comments from the project maintainers) is closed as duplicate. If there are other reports for the same project, those issues will be added as related issues, and a comment left for the user who made the report. If there are offers to be co-maintainers, maintainers, or new project owners, those will be handled first.

For requests that are not moved back to the project issue queue or closed as duplicate, project moderators will then:

  • Check if the project maintainers are still active on drupal.org, by either looking at when the last comment or post was created or at the last time the user logged in on drupal.org; the same is done for every user with the Write to VCS permission

  • If the project maintainers are still active on drupal.org, contact them; after 14 days without any reply, the project will be marked as unsupported

  • If the project maintainers are still active on drupal.org, project moderators will mark the project as unsupported

Reports for unsupported projects that comes from co-maintainers who cannot edit the project page

When a report for unsupported project is created from a co-maintainer who cannot edit the project page, project moderators will do as previously described. In particular, they will still contact the project maintainers, if they are still active on drupal.org.

Template for unsupported projects

When a project is marked as unsupported by project moderators, the following warning could be added on the project page.

In the following markup:

  • [DATE] is the date the warning has been added
  • [ISSUE] is the link to the issue that reported the project is unsupported; in the project page, it is sufficient to add the link as [#ISSUE_NUMBER]
<div class="messages warning">
  <h2 class="element-invisible">Warning message </h2>
  <p>As of [DATE], this project appears to be no longer supported. If, as the project maintainer, you feel this message has been posted in error, please post a comment on [ISSUE].</p>
</div>

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