Creating a new project

Projects, like modules and themes, are community contributed code hosted on Drupal.org that anyone can use. This section contains information on when to create a new project on Drupal.org (and when not to), and how to do it.

Creating a new project versus maintaining an existing project

Why you should offer to maintain an existing project rather than creating a new project that serves the same purpose

General Projects

Creating general projects on drupal.org

How to create a new project

How to create a new project hosted on Drupal.org

Maintenance and development status for projects

Note: There is currently an active issue in the Webmasters' queue suggesting that these status tags are given proper tag descriptions and

Policy on advertising in projects

What types of advertising are OK to put in your project, what types are not, and other guidelines

Policy on projects without code

Situations where it is OK or not OK to have a project on drupal.org with no code

Sandbox projects

Learn about sandbox projects (now deprecated) and how to promote them to full projects

Why host your project on Drupal.org

Why you might want to host your project on the drupal.org web site instead of GitHub or another site

Managing a drupal.org theme, module, or distribution project

Creating a new project