Maintainership

This guide contains information about being or becoming the project owner, maintainer, or co-maintainer of a project, dealing with abandoned projects, and similar subjects.

Working on a project with more than one maintainer

Guidelines and best practices to follow when you are one of the maintainers a project has

Finding a new project owner or new maintainers

Finding new maintainers for your project, or abandoning it if this is not possible

Open Ownership Pledge

How to recruit new maintainers by having them fix issues that demonstrate knowledge of the project

Setting a default branch

How to select the default branch for your project

Managing branches and releases

Using semantic versioning in relation to Drupal core compatibility and branch management

Automated testing in DrupalCI

How to set up periodic automated testing and patch testing in your project

Module categories

Descriptions of categories for modules on Drupal.org

Offering to become a project owner, maintainer, or co-maintainer

How to become project owner, maintainer, or co-maintainer of a project created and maintained by other users