Maintaining a project on drupal.org

Each drupal.org project (a contributed theme, module or translation) needs to be maintained in the contributions repository. If you are not using the drupal.org infrastructure, you cannot setup a project page on drupal.org nor can you offer your module for download at drupal.org. Please note that all code which is commited into the Drupal CVS repository must be covered under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

Before creating a project page on drupal.org, you must apply for a CVS account. An administrator regularly reviews these requests and usually responds within one week. If you have included enough information and your proposed project does not duplicate existing work, your request will most likely be approved (via email). Once this happens, you will be able to use the cvs login command with your cvs user name. This will allow you to add a new directory to the CVS repository and commit your files. Please read the Drupal CVS handbook for more information about how to use CVS at drupal.org.

To get your project listed on drupal.org after it has been committed to CVS, fill in the form at http://drupal.org/node/add/project_project/.

• Make sure that the 'Short project name' matches the directory name in the CVS repository. For example, the contributions/modules/my_module module has the short name my_module.
• Fill in the correct value for the CVS directory field to match the path in the repository. In this case, you should include everything after the contributions part of the directory name (for example /modules/my_module/).
• You should enable the issue tracker for your project to allow people will be able to file bugs against your project, add tasks, or request new features.
• Please note that you must create a project node before you add any CVS tags or branches to your contribution, or you will run into errors when you try to make releases.

Once you submit the project page, it will be visible on drupal.org and people will immediately be able to create issues. You can use the My projects link in the main navigation menu to view any issues that have been submitted for your project(s).

In order for people to download your project, one or more "releases" will need to be created. Learn more about how to create releases at the Managing releases section of the CVS handbook pages.