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Maintainers who need more permissions

In some cases, project maintainers with full permissions on a project may have added additional maintainers without granting them permissions like Edit project, Administer maintainers, or Administer releases. This is an acceptable decision, at the discretion of the project maintainers. However, when the maintainers with those permissions are no longer present or have not committed code in the project, maintainers who need more permissions on the project could create an issue in the project issue queue, following these steps.

  • File an issue in the project's queue, stating you are a maintainer who needs more project permissions, and which project permissions you need between Write to VCS, Edit project, Administer maintainers, Maintain issues, and Administer releases. Having both the Write to VCS and Administer maintainers permissions is necessary to be able to change the default branch for the project. For the title, use Offering to maintain <project_name>. (Replace <project_name> with the project name shown on the project page, not its machine name.)
  • (Highly preferred) If enabled, use the Contact tab on the project maintainers' profile page to contact them. Request that a comment is posted on the issue you have created. We need a comment on the issue you opened to see what the decision has been.
  • If you contacted the project maintainers, report in the issue summary which project maintainers have been contacted regarding the request and how you contacted them.
  • If the project maintainers reply and give you the necessary permissions, the issue is fixed.
  • If the project maintainers agree to give you the necessary permissions, but do not make any change, create a new issue in the Drupal.org project maintainership issue queue with the same title e the same information given in the issue created in the project queue. Please include a link to the project page and a link to the issue created in the project queue. If the project maintainers privately agree to make you maintainer, ask them to post a comment on the issue you created.
  • If the project maintainers do not reply in fourteen (14) days since the request appeared in the project issue queue, create a new issue in the Drupal.org project maintainership issue queue with the same title used for the issue in the project queue. Please include a link to the project page. Project moderators will normally try to contact the project maintainers as an extra safeguard unless it is evident that they are no longer active in the Drupal community, giving to the contacted project maintainers seven (7) days to reply to the message that they have sent via the Contact tab.
  • Leave a comment seven (7) days after the project maintainers have been contacted by project moderators, if none of the project maintainers rejected the request. The comment will show you are still interested in the request, and it will allow project moderators to notice they need to take action on the issue. Without that comment, no change will be done to project maintainers.