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The 2025 Annual Maintainer Check-In is now complete, a huge thank you to everyone who responded and to all the maintainers who continue to keep Drupal core moving forward.

As part of this process, we’ve confirmed that a number of Drupal Core subsystems and topic areas are currently without an active maintainer.

If you’ve ever thought about stepping into a maintainer role, or co-maintaining alongside others, now is the perfect time to get involved.

Why maintainers matter

Maintainers play a key role in ensuring the quality, stability, and momentum of Drupal core.

Maintainers help shape the direction of their subsystem or topic area, guide contributors as well as triage issues and review merge requests.

You don’t need to be a long-time contributor, if you’ve been active in a related area or are keen to grow your involvement, we’d love to hear from you.

Learn more about the maintainer role:

• Drupal core maintainer roles and responsibilities  
• Core governance and subsystem overview

Areas currently without an active maintainer Subsystems

• Authentication and Authorization  
• Automated Cron  
• Ban  
• Bootstrap  
• Content Moderation  
• Content Translation  
• Cron  
• Database Update API  
• Filter  
• Image  
• Inline Form Errors  
• Installer  
• Language  
• Lock  
• Mail  
• Markup  
• Menu UI  
• MySQL DB driver  
• Options  
• Path  
• PostgreSQL DB driver  
• Request Processing  
• Settings Tray  
• Sqlite DB driver  
• System (module)  
• Token  
• Workflows

 Topics

• Documentation

How to express interest

If you’d like to maintain or co-maintain one or more of these areas:

• Comment on the Seeking subsystem and topic maintainers for open positions issue.  
• Include your name, Drupal.org username, and a short note about your experience or interest area.  
• Or, reach out directly via Drupal Slack to @griffynh.

What happens next

Once interest is expressed:

• A public issue is opened in the Drupal core issue queue for each applicant so the community can provide feedback.  
• The Leadership Team reviews each application, discusses any concerns with the applicant directly, and offers support where needed. 
• Following this, a member of the Core Leadership Team updates the issue with the outcome and adjusts the issue metadata.

Thank you to everyone who contributes as a Drupal maintainer, your work is what keeps Drupal core secure, stable, and evolving.

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Today we are talking about the community working group, What they do, and how you can help with guests AmyJune Hineline, Mark Casias, and Matthew Saunders. We'll also cover Drupal CMS Geo Images as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/530

Topics

• Exploring the Community Working Group (CWG)
• Roles and Responsibilities within the CWG
• Conflict Resolution and Community Health
• Matthew's Journey and Joining the CWG
• Qualities and Experiences for CWG Members
• Identifying the Need for Cultural Sensitivity
• The Importance of Patience and Grace in Conflict Resolution
• Onboarding and the Role of the Community Health Team
• Time Commitment and Responsibilities of CWG Members
• Supporting the CWG Without Formal Membership
• Maintaining Confidentiality and Promoting Transparency
• Addressing Credit Abuse and Community Health
• Parting Words of Wisdom for Aspiring Community Members

Resources

• Recipe application

Guests

AmyJune Hineline - volkswagenchick Matthew Saunders - jamesmatthewsaunders.ai MatthewS Mark Casias - omibee.com markie

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi

MOTW Correspondent

Mike Anello - drupaleasy.com ultimike

• Brief description:
  • Drupal CMS Geo Images - a Drupal CMS recipe that automatically displays uploaded geotagged images on a map.
• Module name/project name:
  • Drupal CMS Geo Images
• Brief history
  • How old: created in February 2025 by Italo Mairo (https://www.drupal.org/u/itamair). He is also one of the maintainers of the GeoField module as well as many of the other geo-spatial related contrib modules.
• Versions available: 1.1.4, released Nov 9 2025.
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained
  • Security coverage
  • Documentation - yes, on the project page (README is the same)
  • Number of open issues: 1 open issues, 0 of which are bugs against the current branch (2 total issues)
• Module features and usage
  • Creates new "Geo image" media type
  • Displays image and map
  • Bulk import via Media Library Importer module
  • Includes preconfigured map view (filterable by date)
  • Each mapped photo displayed with image thumbnail on map