On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 04:55 +0900, Nasir Khan wrote:
> Apologies if this is not the right forum for this, but this surely has
> the right audience.
> 
> I have been using a few projects on rubyforge / sourceforge (ruby
> projects) which are now unfortunately dead (no SVN activity for more
> than a year, no forum no tracker nothing).
> I have been been monkey patching some of them in my local repository
> and my attempts at contacting the project owners has failed.
> They have apparently lost interest and moved on.
> 
> - I could continue to use them and monkey patch them as I go along
> 
> - I could abandon them and use something else (with some pain)
> 
> - I am willing to adopt at least one and maintain it, fixing bugs and
> enhancing.
> 
> I wonder if the last one is even an option, and if yes then how.

Sorry to reply a few days late, but anyhow, what Gregory Brown said was
right on, and there are a couple more details in this FAQ item:

http://rubyforge.org/docman/view.php/5/460/faq.html#abandoned

Yours,

Tom