Tracking modules up for adoption (additional tagging or categorizing)

well, i created a username on drupal.org just for this purpose. i assigned my no longer maintained modules to this user named unmaintained. but it appears that someone blocked this user so he justr appears in search results: http://drupal.org/search/user/unmaintained. from there you are supposed to see a list of all his owned modules. sigh.

could someone with sufficien t permissions please unblock this user.

Assigning unmaintained modules to a special user is a hack, and one that is not accessible to other module developers. it's bad practice and should be reverted/fixed.

Actually, regardless of what else we do, there should be a taxonomy term called "unmaintained". This makes it immediately visible that the module is unmaintained, as well as provide new developers who want to adopt a module a place to look.

Of course, other measures are in order too, just as putting a note saying 'this module is unmaintained', with nice blink tags around it (well not exactly blinking, but you get the idea).

Marking as duplicate of http://drupal.org/node/99466

Google still likes this page. Putting in link to recent docs on dealing with abandoned modules https://www.drupal.org/node/251466