Request for taking over the autofill namespace

Please clarify what you intend to do.

In the issue summary you say you want to "take over the project namespace". The process for this is described here: https://www.drupal.org/node/251466#procedure---own-project---namespace

However, it does not make sense to use the namespace "jQuery Autofill" for something different than a module to make the jQuery Autofill library available for Drupal (8). So I believe you may want an ownership transfer leaving the old obsolete Drupal 6 branch intact and just start a new Drupal 8 branch.

Since this project will make use of a third party library (the link to it on the project page provides 404), please also indicate what library you will make use of, its location, and its license.

Typo in link.

The namespace is autofill, since that is the project machine name.
Taking over a namespace doesn't mean the new project will have the same purpose of the old project; it just means the user wants to use a project machine name that is already used from another, old, possibly obsolete, project. Since two projects cannot have the same machine name, the user needs to open a request for taking over the existing project, not to continue the development of the old project, but use the project machine name already used from that project.

The documentation to take over a namespace includes the following sentence.

Before a transfer of namespace can take place, the person who requests the namespace must transfer the old repo into a sandbox project to preserve its history.

I take this needs to be done after checking with the current project owner if they still have planes for the existing project, but before transferring the project ownership.

I am going to contact the project owner in the next hours. Even if users don't enable their contact tab, user administrators can still contact them.

Hi @kiamlaluno,

any updates on this?

I took a look at https://github.com/szeidler/autofill, which is proposed to be the D8 version from @szeidler, and it would be really nice to have that on d.o.

So it would be good if we could proceed here.

Since I didn't find the copy of the email I should have sent via the contact form, I resent the message today.

Hello rcb.ferreira,

I am writing you because Stephan (https://www.drupal.org/u/szeidler) wants to take over the jQuery Autofill module (https://www.drupal.org/project/autofill) for the namespace.
May you post a comment on https://www.drupal.org/project/projectownership/issues/3083075 confirming that it's fine with you? Without a publicly visible reply on that issue which tells Stephan to proceed, the module and the namespace will be passed to Stephan in a week.

Best regards,
kiamlaluno
-- Drupal.org webmaster
-- Drupal.org Git administrator

We are still waiting for szeidler to reply on this issue and give the information required him. He is also supposed to create a sandbox project containing a clone of the project.

I also sent a message to ivanbreet, the user with the most recent commits for the module.

Hello ivanbreet,

I am writing you because Stephan (https://www.drupal.org/u/szeidler) wants to take over the jQuery Autofill module (https://www.drupal.org/project/autofill) for the namespace and you are the user with the most recent commits for that module. I also contacted the project owner.
May you post a comment on https://www.drupal.org/project/projectownership/issues/3083075 confirming that it's fine with you? Without a publicly visible reply on that issue which tells Stephan to proceed (or not), the module and the namespace will be passed to Stephan in a week.

Best regards,
kiamlaluno
-- Drupal.org webmaster
-- Drupal.org Git administrator

Since both the users haven't posted anything in the past 4 years, I asked to give a comment here in the next 7 days. Since we are still waiting for szeidler to reply here, a week more doesn't make any difference.

We are good to go. If the project owner or the maintainer with the most recent commits doesn't post a comment here saying to be contrary to the request, in a week we will proceed.

Can we go?

I changed ownership as requested.

@chr.fritsch Thank you for the reminder.

I also removed the previous maintainers.

Thank you 🙏