Thank you for all your kind replies! I will continue the discussion on the 
npm mailinglist ;) (didn't know they were separated) 

yours
Martin.

On Friday, November 23, 2012 5:05:47 AM UTC+9, Nuno Job wrote:
>
> Martin you can fork a project and rename it — it is really as simple as 
> that.
>
> Nuno
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 8:28 AM, Micheil Smith 
> <[email protected]<javascript:>
> > wrote:
>
>> See also: https://npmjs.org/doc/disputes.html
>>
>> – Micheil
>>
>> On 21/11/2012, at 7:15 AM, Martin Heidegger 
>> <[email protected]<javascript:>> 
>> wrote:
>>
>> I just stumbled over the problem of choosing a zip library to use. Many 
>> of the zip projects are not actively maintained by their owners at github. 
>> One problem I found was that it took too long to answer 
>> a maintenance request and yet another project spammed the npm directory. 
>> https://github.com/wellawaretech/node-zipstream/issues/18
>>
>> Now I was thinking that it might be good to have a "npm-archive" github 
>> organisation that offers people to "hand over" their projects if there is 
>> no maintainer left. This organisation would itself not start any further 
>> development but eventually pass-on projects if new maintainers would be 
>> found.
>>
>> What do you think of that?
>>
>> yours
>> Martin Heidegger
>>
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