Automatic Nodetitles appears to be unsupported

I've changed the module and development status and have slapped a message on the project page. I have not transferred the module to the unsupported project user yet. Let's hope this project finds a new maintainer soon.

Not sure a new maintainer is needed, auto_entitylabel does everything auto_nodetitle does and then some, includes plenty of fixes and is more sustainable.

I'd say just let it retire gracefully.

Added a link to the replacement module to the message.

Hello,
I would like to take the ownership of this module since there is no alternative available.
https://www.drupal.org/project/auto_entitylabel does not appear to be a replacement for this.

I will maintain this module, fix security issues, as they arise and will publish release in 8.x branch as well.

Regards.

https://www.drupal.org/project/auto_entitylabel does not appear to be a replacement for this.

What gives you this impression?

As stated above it has exactly the same features and applies to all entities, what is the point of maintaining a separate module that does the same thing, but can only be used for nodes, appears to me this would only serve to confuse users.

The motivation was a release in 8.x branch.
But let's wait till there is a release in 8.x branch for entity label, rather than having a duplicate module.

Thumbs Up!!! :)

Regards.

Hello,

Interested to taking this project over.

Thanks,
Deepak R

Automatic Entity Label (auto_entitylabel) 8.x-2.0-beta1 was released 23rd of February 2017. And it works. I suggest that Automatic Nodetitles becomes/stays deprecated - and that the ownership transfer request is removed.

It makes so much more sense to contribute to improvements for the Automatic Entity Label module.

Request for reopen.

As requested on the project page, https://www.drupal.org/u/deepak_zyxware responded here stating he is interested.

This project shouldn't die because there are alternatives. The community should decide which module is appropriate for their situation. The D8 version has been available even before the alternatives mentioned. The only thing stopping it is proper maintainer ship. Simple request to follow proper procedure!

If anybody who wants to take over the abandoned project really wants it, the person should create a new issue (cannot reopen this closed-fixed issue).
But be prepared to make a GOOD case why this project is still necessary.

Suggest to remove the misleading information then!

I completely agree with @mmjvb. There's no good reason to give up on a project that is actively in use by up to 62,019 websites. As of now, all of those sites are showing a nasty red Project not supported message on their update reports, likely causing a mass panic, as a red message usually indicates a security issue.

Here's what the available updates report looks like, for reference:

I thought the understanding was that Automatic Entity Label is a complete replacement for/has replaced Automatic Nodetitles? Oh, we are talking about the D7 version? I agree that it would be nice if the D7 version was maintained even if there never will be a D8 release.

I notice that dddave wrote:

But be prepared to make a GOOD case why this project is still necessary.

I think the current D7 user base is a very good reason ... Making all those 60.000+ installs switch to Automatic Entity Label seems kind of useless.

Added: I still think clearly recommending Automatic Entity Label to any new (D7) users is useful.

I agree. I'm using Automatic Nodetitles on many active sites and I think it's a very simple but useful module. Replacing it with another module will take hours which I'm not sure how to bill to clients.