• Try to contact the author to make sure the plugin/template is really an orphan
  • if not, send patches to the author instead of creating a new, just slightly different version of the plugin (like we currently have with translation, translation2, translation3, …)
• If the plugin is an orphan, send a mail to the mailinglist with your intend to adopt the plugin
• Clone the repository at github if it's there already
• If it isn't check in the last original version into some version control (git + github) recommended
• Change the plugin page
  • put your name as author
  • put your email address
  • change the download link to your version of the plugin
  • put some info about the orginal author somewhere in the description of the plugin

For authors giving their plugins/templates to adoption: use some tag? “orphan”?