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

Drupal has thousands of contributed projects, with an owner who has full access to the project, and any number of co-maintainers/maintainers with different levels of access. While most maintainers continue to care for their projects after the initial release, some may move on and leave the project in the care of the community. Ideally, maintainers who leave will put up a note that the project is in need of new maintainers so the work can continue uninterrupted, and eventually follow what reported in Finding new maintainer or co-maintainer for your project.

Occasionally, though, maintainers stop maintaining a project without explanation. While experienced Drupal users know to determine the health of a project by checking the queue and the git commits, having broken and not maintained / unsupported projects available can be confusing and off-putting for new users.

Terminology

The terminology used in this documentation guide

Maintainership and sandboxes

Handling maintainership of sandboxes

How to become project owner, maintainer, or co-maintainer

The procedure to follow to become project owner, maintainer, or co-maintainer

How project moderators handle requests to be project owner, maintainer, or co-maintainer

The procedure followed by project moderators to change project owner or to add new co-maintainers/maintainers

How project moderators handle reports of unsupported projects

The procedure followed by project moderators when a project is reported to be unsupported

Guide maintainers

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