>>> [!note] Migrated issue <!-- Drupal.org comment --> <!-- Migrated from issue #3355085. --> Reported by: [ressa](https://www.drupal.org/user/102134) >>> <h3 id="summary-problem-motivation">Problem/Motivation</h3> <p>While working on updating the Packages.org description text for the <a href="https://packagist.org/packages/drupal/recommended-project">drupal/recommended-project</a> project page in <span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-1"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3354453" title="Status: Active">#3354453: Add Drupal 'keywords' to Recommended Drupal project composer.json, and update description</a></span> I see that the default versions on <a href="https://github.com/drupal">https://github.com/drupal</a> are quite old for most repositories.</p> <p>It is best practice to make the latest official release (<code>10.0</code>) or dev-release (<code>10.1</code>) the default branch on Github and Gitlab, for many different reasons:</p> <ul> <li>To show the latest updated README.md and relevant information</li> <li>To make sure services which pull data from those repos get the right info</li> <li>For better SEO</li> <li>To make it clear which repos are outdated, and point to the relevant repos</li> </ul> <h4 id="summary-steps-reproduce">Steps to reproduce</h4> <ul> <li>Visit some of the repos under <a href="https://github.com/drupal">https://github.com/drupal</a> and see that the default version for some of them is quite old, like Drupal 8.8 or Drupal 9.1.</li> <li>See that many of the currently <a href="https://github.com/orgs/drupal/repositories?type=all">40 repositories</a> are deprecated, yet you can't tell that from the README file. See for example <a href="https://github.com/drupal/pinned-dev-dependencies">drupal/pinned-dev-dependencies</a> (<span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-7"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3090684" title="Status: Closed (fixed)">#3090684: Rename drupal/dev-dependencies and drupal/pinned-dev-dependencies</a></span>).</li> </ul> <h3 id="summary-proposed-resolution">Proposed resolution</h3> <ul> <li>Update the default version to the current official release for relevant repos at every minor version release of Drupal 10.1, 10.2, etc.</li> <li>Update or add README file, stating prominently at the top if the repo is outdated, and link to the relevant replacement repo</li> </ul> <h3 id="summary-remaining-tasks">Remaining tasks</h3> <ul> <li>&#9989; done - Update <a href="http://drupal.org/">http://drupal.org/</a> to <a href="https://drupal.org/">https://drupal.org/</a> on <a href="https://github.com/drupal">https://github.com/drupal</a></li> <li>&#9989; done - Update the default versions to the latest release, or dev-release</li> <li>Update README file, stating at the top if the repo is deprecated, possibly link to relevant replacement</li> <li>Make sure the default version of relevant repositories are updated to the current official release, by adding this task to the checklist when minor versions of Drupal (10.1, 10.2, etc.) are released every half year or so</li> </ul> <h3 id="summary-ui-changes">User interface changes</h3> <h3 id="summary-api-changes">API changes</h3> <h3 id="summary-data-model-changes">Data model changes</h3>