If the guidelines for closed groups is adopted, the following groups would be affected.

Critical
Regional groups in this list should be considered abandoned and immediate action (opening group, approving members, seeking new organizers) should be taken.

Group Member Count Organizer Organizer's Last activity
guangzhou 1 member (24) HansR Sept 2007
chennai-drupal-group 1 member (30) dorait July 2011
package-manager 3 members (16) Suggest archiving
migrating-joomla 4 members (17) b2design Jan 2011
kenya 10 members (21) kabogo Nov 2008
co-maintainers-projects 32 members (28) AjK April 2008
form-api 55 members (30) chx June 2012

Major
5 or more pending member requests I consider major.

Group Member Count Organizer Organizer's Last activity
Botswana 1 member (6) segamatale Sept 2011
se-ks-ne-ok-sw-mo-nw-ar-rural-area 7 members (6) Jee Aug 2011
uchicago 12 members (7) froboy Feb 2012
advanced-data-driven-applications 25 members (5) jptillman May 2012
california-highered 54 members (7) coderintherye Feb 2012

Normal
These groups just have one organizer.

Group Member Count Organizer Organizer's Last activity
southern-sudan 1 member (1) Kuriawega May 2012
namibia 4 members (1) SandStorm Jan 2011
drupal-aceh 5 members (1) Mseuno Dec 2010
malta 5 members spidermaster May 2012
pajamanation 7 members (3) mixel Sept 2011
tri-cities-tennessee 7 members (1) Imaaxa-Cory Dec 2011
drupal-pacifica 15 members (1) Lynnold Feb 2010
niger 15 members (1) RONA ABA Aboubacar Dec 2010 (the other organizer has no activity)
university-texas-austin 16 members (1) gravelpot June 2012
castillayleon 19 members (1) continental May 2012
iceland 23 members (1) einarps April 2011 imerlin May 2011
drupal-microfinance 31 members dgoutam April 2012
tinymce-development 33 members (3) kreynen June 2012
rajkot-india 53 members beautifulmind May 2012
voip-drupal 279 members leoburd June 2012

Minor

Group Member Count Notes
puducherry 18 members three organizers
druforum-drupal-netforum-integration 30 members pdube Nov 2009 (2 organizers, but they're the same user.)
tennessee 33 members bryrockMarch 2012 jlmeredith Nov 2011
yale-university 82 members (1) nflowers1228 June 2012 rrode Sept 2010
vietnam 519 members seven organizers.

Comments

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Title: Policy Proposal for Closed Groups » Action items for Policy Proposal for Closed Groups
Component: Miscellaneous » Content moderation
Category: feature » task
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Component: Content moderation » User Account

Nothing seem to have happend to this issue since it was posted three years ago. I would like to nudge it forwards.

However, rather than opening it up, I request that the abandoned group Co-Maintainers for Projects is deleted (or that its description is updated to point users to the correct documentation for requesting co-maintainers and taking over abandoned projects).

This group as it currently exists only serve to confuse and mislead people about these things.

If this group for some reason cannot be deleted, then comment posting should be locked, and the description of it should be replaced with the following:

This group is abandoned. If you're seeking co-maintainers for your project, please follow the procedure outlined in Finding new maintainer or co-maintainer for your project. If you want to become the new maintainer of an abandoned project , please follow the process for dealing with abandoned projects.

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Component: User Account » Other

Setting a less confusing component.