diff -u project.module project.module
--- project.module	12 Aug 2010 18:49:03 -0000
+++ project.module	13 Aug 2010 06:04:02 -0000
@@ -820,7 +820,7 @@
   // Make sure we actually updated a record for this maintainer.
   if (!db_affected_rows()) {
     // Didn't update anything, add this as a new maintainer, instead.
-    project_release_project_maintainer_add($nid, $uid, $permissions);
+    project_maintainer_add($nid, $uid, $permissions);
   }
   else {
     // Invoke hook_project_maintainer_update() to let other modules know this
diff -u includes/project_maintainers.inc includes/project_maintainers.inc
--- includes/project_maintainers.inc	12 Aug 2010 19:01:38 -0000
+++ includes/project_maintainers.inc	13 Aug 2010 05:46:33 -0000
@@ -55,8 +55,8 @@
   $form['new_maintainer'] = array();
   $form['new_maintainer']['user'] = array(
     '#type' => 'textfield',
-    '#size' => 30,
-    '#maxlength' => 60,
+    '#size' => 20,
+    '#maxlength' => 40,
     '#autocomplete_path' => 'user/autocomplete',
   );
   // we'll fill this in with a real value during validate()
@@ -106,7 +106,10 @@
   $row[] = ''; // Empty cell for the 'Operations' column on new maintainers.
   $rows[] = $row;
 
-  $output .= theme('table', $header, $rows);
+  // Although using named keys in the $header array makes this form easier to
+  // alter, theme_table() freaks out if the $header array has non-numeric
+  // keys. So we ditch the keys at this point to avoid notices.
+  $output .= theme('table', array_values($header), $rows);
   $output .= drupal_render($form);
   return $output;
 }
only in patch2:
unchanged:
--- project.inc	30 Jul 2010 21:59:28 -0000	1.150
+++ project.inc	13 Aug 2010 05:59:34 -0000
@@ -425,11 +425,15 @@ function project_project_nodeapi(&$node,
 function project_project_insert($node) {
   db_query("INSERT INTO {project_projects} (nid, uri, homepage, changelog, cvs, demo, screenshots, documentation, license) VALUES (%d, '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s')", $node->nid, $node->project['uri'], $node->project['homepage'], $node->project['changelog'], $node->project['cvs'], $node->project['demo'], $node->project['screenshots'], $node->project['documentation'], $node->project['license']);
 //  project_release_scan_directory($node->project['uri']);
+  $perms = array_fill_keys(array_keys(project_permission_load()), 1);
+  project_maintainer_add($node->nid, $node->uid, $perms);
 }
 
 function project_project_update($node) {
   db_query("UPDATE {project_projects} SET uri = '%s', homepage = '%s', changelog = '%s', cvs = '%s', demo = '%s', screenshots = '%s', documentation = '%s', license = '%s' WHERE nid = %d", $node->project['uri'], $node->project['homepage'], $node->project['changelog'], $node->project['cvs'], $node->project['demo'], $node->project['screenshots'], $node->project['documentation'], $node->project['license'], $node->nid);
 //  project_release_scan_directory($node->project['uri']);
+  $perms = array_fill_keys(array_keys(project_permission_load()), 1);
+  project_maintainer_update($node->nid, $node->uid, $perms);
 }
 
 function project_project_delete($node) {