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How project moderators handle reports of abandoned projects

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This documentation page is for project moderators. It is not intended for people who report unsupported/abandoned projects.

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To understand exactly which maintainers need to be contacted, see Terminology.

When a report for unsupported/abandoned projects is created in the Drupal.org project maintainership queue, project moderators will:

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In the case the project page reports that the project owner leaves it up to project moderators to decide who to add as maintainers, there is no need to contact the project owner. The other maintainers will be contacted to verify nobody is still developing the project.

  • Verify the issue contains the link to the project and to the issue created in the project issue queue.
  • Verify the link for the issue in the project queue is for an issue which was kept in the project issue queue at least fourteen (14) days.
  • Verify the issue created in the project issue queue contains the project name in the title.
  • Verify that the person who posted the issue in the Drupal.org project maintainership queue is the person who created the issue in the project issue queue.
  • Verify there are not requests to become owner or maintainer for the same project; those requests should be handled first.
  • Verify the issue created in the Drupal.org project maintainership queue reports project maintainers have been contacted.
  • Verify the project is effectively abandoned/unsupported by checking the project page and the project issue queue.
  • Check whether the project maintainers are still active on drupal.org, by either looking at when the last comment or post was created or at the last time the user logged in on drupal.org. If the project maintainers are still active on drupal.org, contact them; after fourteen (14) days without any reply, the project will be marked unsupported.

If those points are verified, the project will be marked abandoned. The project page will be edited to contain the following warning, where <date> is the date of the project page edit, and <issue> is the link to the issue requiring the project to be marked abandoned.

<div class="messages warning">
  <h2 class="element-invisible">Warning message </h2>
  <p>As of <date>, this project appears to be no longer supported. If, as the project maintainer, you feel this message has been posted in error, please post a comment on <issue>.</p>
</div>