All project ownership issues got moved to the new issue queue https://drupal.org/project/projectownership. That queue has 3 components:
- Ownership transfer - for when people want to transfer project ownership to one another
- Abandoned / unsupported projects - for when people want to mark their projects as such
- Needs maintainers - new process, community members can create an issue when some project needs maintainers, others can apply to become one

Remaining tasks:

  1. Write proper project description on the project page
  2. Update all documentation about project ownership transfer to point to the new queue
  3. Write documentation page for the new "Needs maintainers" component / process

Done:
Create 'project ownership' project https://drupal.org/project/projectownership
Move existing project ownership issues from webmasters queue to the new queue.
#2256249: Move 'Project ownership' issues to the new queue

Original post by jibran

@herom proposed a very nice idea on the Drupal.org 2014 roadmap brainstorming group about creating a "Need Maintainers" page. The basic idea is to create a page where module owners or users can ask for new maintainers, and interested users can apply maintainership. @jibran added a counter proposal

Let's make a "Need Maintainers" project on d.o. with an issue queue just like the webmasters issue queue.
If a module required a new maintainer, then the module owner or any other user can create an issue "Need Maintainer for x.y.z module" with a little explanation about why this project needs maintainers and list benefits, if any, of becoming a maintainer. Interested users can reply to the issue, and we can close/fix the issue once we have a new maintainer.

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This sounds fantastic to me. I actually wonder too if we c/should just move the entire "Project ownership" process over to this queue instead? It'd be much more discoverable that way.

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killes@www.drop.org commented

That sounds like a very good idea.

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tvn commented

Great idea and +1 to moving all 'project ownership' stuff to this queue.

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Status: Needs review » Reviewed & tested by the community

Well then!

Marking RTBC, and will leave this for a couple of days.

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tvn commented

I'd love to get sreynen's opinion on this as he is doing most of work in 'Project ownership' queue recently. Pinged him on IRC.

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sreynen commented

This sounds good to me. My only request is that abandoned/unsupported projects have a separate component, so it stays easy to focus on that particular subset of issues.

Also, just FYI, there's a group that seems to be largely intended to solve the same problem:

https://groups.drupal.org/co-maintainers-projects

But that's not really being used, so I don't see that as a problem.

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Homotechsual commented

Love this idea!

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just fixing typos and sentences.

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tvn commented
Title: Create "Need Maintainers" project to find new maintainers for projects » Create a separate 'Project Ownership' issue queue
Assigned: Unassigned » tvn

Ok, I think enough time passed for anyone to say anything against this idea, so I am going to implement it.

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dddave commented

Glad I found this or I would've been pretty lost when suddenly all those issues were gone. ;)

Adding a late +1 and a reminder that we need to adjust our docs after implementation.

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Created #2256249: Move 'Project ownership' issues to the new queue to move issues around.

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Issues got moved to the new queue https://drupal.org/project/projectownership. I removed "Project ownership" component from the Webmasters queue.

Remaining tasks here are:
1. Write proper project description on the project page
2. Update all documentation about project ownership transfer to point to the new queue
3. Write documentation page for the new "Needs maintainers" component / process

Any takers?

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tvn commented
Status: Reviewed & tested by the community » Needs work
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Issue tags: +d.o support
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I'll work on this over the next days.

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dddave commented

Just an update: #1 and #2 should be mostly done. I still have #3 to do though.

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dddave commented

Created https://www.drupal.org/node/2332703 (unpublished for now). Is this getting in the right direction? Reminder for myself: If the site pagegoes live, add info about it on the project page.

edit: dang, false friend

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tvn commented

Thanks for starting the doc dddave. I edited it a bit to be more about 'what you should do if you need co-maintainer' versus 'what you should do if you don't have permissions to add someone'. I also found this page: https://www.drupal.org/node/23789 it has some tips 'How to find co-maintainer' at the bottom. I merged the ones which still make sense into your page. I think once this new page is published, we can remove those instructions and just link to the new page.

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dddave commented

Let's get this finally finished. What needs to be done here? I've dropped the ball and could need some guiding light.

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I think that your page just needs to be published and this is pretty much it.

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dddave commented
Status: Needs work » Fixed

Published the page and added info about it on the project page.

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joachim commented

You also need to update the documentation pages that explain procedures such as taking over abandoned projects

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dddave commented

Added info/links to the best practices for comaintaining page and the dealing with unsupported modules page.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

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