Hi Dan, I don't have any problem with you adopting the modules, but I'm wondering whether it might be an idea for you to send a message to the datet...@perl.org mailing list first, outlining your plan.
That way, if there's someone out there who'd also like to take them on, you get a chance to decide which of you will take what. More likely that people will be relieved that someone, particularly someone else, is going to take them on. As you'll have seen, an automatic release has been made, but as soon as I remove his indexing permissions and his account is locked, his automatic process will stop. It would be good to have a clean handover before breaking ZEFRAM's automation, since it is clearly doing "the right thing". Cheers, Neil