Maintainership

This guide contains information about being or becoming the project owner, maintainer, or co-maintainer of a project, dealing with abandoned projects, and similar subjects.

Co-maintaining projects

Guidelines and best practices to follow when you have more than one maintainer of a project

Finding a new project owner or new maintainers/co-maintainers

Finding a new maintainer or co-maintainer for your project, or abandoning it if this is not possible

Open Ownership Pledge (finding co-maintainers)

How to recruit new co-maintainers by having them fix issues that demonstrate knowledge of the project

Archiving an abandoned project in a sandbox

How to archive an old, abandoned project in a sandbox so its short name can be reused

Setting a default branch

How to select the default branch for your project

Managing unsupported branches / releases

How to gracefully state that your project no longer supports an older version

Automated testing

How to set up periodic automated testing and patch testing in your project

Module categories

Descriptions of categories for modules on Drupal.org

Offering to become a project owner, maintainer, or co-maintainer

How to become project owner, maintainer, or co-maintainer of a project created and maintained by other users