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Drupal has thousands of contributed projects, with an owner who has full access to the project, and any number of co-maintainers/maintainers with different levels of access. While most maintainers continue to care for their projects after the initial release, some may move on and leave the project in the care of the community. Ideally, maintainers who leave will put up a note that the project is in need of new maintainers so the work can continue uninterrupted, and eventually follow what reported in Finding new maintainer or co-maintainer for your project.
Occasionally, though, maintainers stop maintaining a project without explanation. While experienced Drupal users know to determine the health of a project by checking the queue and the git commits, having broken and not maintained / unsupported projects available can be confusing and off-putting for new users. That is why there is the Drupal.org project maintainership project: to handle requests to become project owner, maintainer, or co-maintainer, and reports of projects that should be marked as unsupported.