Offering to co-maintain Translate Drupal with GTranslate

I have contacted the maintainer edo888 → from contact tab from their user profile.

I contacted edo888 using the following message.

Hello Edvard,

I am contacting you because Naveen ( https://www.drupal.org/u/naveenvalecha → ) offered to co-maintain Translate Drupal with GTranslate ( https://www.drupal.org/project/gtranslate → ), a project for which you are project owner and sole maintainer.

May you post a comment on https://www.drupal.org/project/projectownership/issues/3398678 → about accepting or declining the offer? Without a comment posted in that issue in the next 14 days, Naveen will be probably added as co-maintainer (with all the permissions on the project, except the permission to administer maintainers/co-maintainers).
None of the current maintainers/co-maintainers will be removed by site moderators. Co-maintainers cannot change the project owner nor the maintainers.

I am contacting all people with the explicit permission to administer co-maintainers/maintainers for that project. In this case, that is just you.

Best regards,
Alberto Paderno
-- Drupal.org site moderator
-- Drupal.org project moderator

I changed the status, since we are waiting for a reply.

Hi,

I do not accept co-mainterners.

@apaderno I do not like your policy about accepting offers when there is no response.

Thanks!

The policy that is expressed in the message from @apaderno is long established at Drupal.org and is described here: How to become project owner, maintainer, or co-maintainer → . More specifically, see steps 5 and 6 in the procedure described. If you don't like it, you can try to get it changed.

My personal opinion is that if site moderators were not allowed to add new maintainers when project owners are totally unresponsive to posts the project's issue queue and to personal messages, the Drupal ecosystem would rapidly become a garbage dump made up of a mix of abandoned modules and wild forks.

There are too many abandoned modules in the Drupal ecosystem already, but that is because nobody offers to take over when an owner goes somewhere else without arranging a orderly succession.

As gisle made already clear, that is not my policy; it is a policy that exists from more than 14 years, even before I became site moderator.

That policy is pretty clear: If a project maintainer does not notice the issue on the project issue, which is kept there for 14 days and shows the project name in its title, nor does the project maintainer notice the contact message sent by a site moderator, then site moderators proceed with adding the person who offered to be co-maintainer/maintainer as co-maintainer/maintainer.
It is even what I reported in the contact message I sent; I did not omit that detail.

@edo888
Thanks for the feedback. I'm marking this as "Closed(Won't fix)". Looking forward to hear your feedback on the issues in the issue queue.