Drupal 7 form API reference issues / maintenance
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<h3 id="summary-location">Documentation location/URL</h3>
<p>There is a separate <a href="https://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/developer%21topics%21forms_api_reference.html/7.x">form API reference documentation for Drupal 7 and earlier</a>, which is not a part of regular d.o. content, but needs to be edited via documentation git repository - <a href="https://git.drupalcode.org/project/documentation/-/tree/7.x-1.x">https://git.drupalcode.org/project/documentation/-/tree/7.x-1.x</a>.</p>
<h3 id="summary-problem-motivation">Problem/Motivation</h3>
<p>Last commit to this repository was approx. 4,5 years ago from @jhodgdon. I do not see any further activity in that repository, despite we have reported issues with this documentation here. Most problematic should be 404 links, which we do not want in DOC pages. See:</p>
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<li><span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link drupalorg-gitlab-link-wrapper"><a href="https://git.drupalcode.org/project/documentation/-/work_items/2664268" class="drupalorg-gitlab-link">https://git.drupalcode.org/project/documentation/-/work_items/2664268</a></span></li>
<li><span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link drupalorg-gitlab-link-wrapper"><a href="https://git.drupalcode.org/project/documentation/-/work_items/3278966" class="drupalorg-gitlab-link">https://git.drupalcode.org/project/documentation/-/work_items/3278966</a></span></li>
<li>Another 404s, such as <a href="http://api.drupal.org/api/function/ajax_example_dependent_dropdown_degrades">AJAX Example</a>, <a href="http://docs.jquery.com/DOM/Manipulation">jQuery operations for DOM manipulation</a>, <a href="http://api.drupal.org/api/function/_form_builder">_form_builder</a>, <a href="http://api.drupal.org/api/function/drupal_render/">drupal_render()</a>, ...</li>
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<p>Do we have a maintainer for this form API reference these days, or we need a new one? Drupal 7 is still not EOL, so I think it is important to keep that documentation page actual and without problems.</p>
<h3 id="summary-proposed-resolution">Proposed resolution</h3>
<p>Fix at least most important issues with the form API reference and / or appoint a new maintainer of this form API reference documentation.</p>
<h3 id="summary-remaining-tasks">Remaining tasks</h3>
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