I once took over ownership of the then-quite-popular async-lock package. It had a bug and it really wasn't being maintained anymore. The process was actually

I once took over ownership of the then-quite-popular async-lock package. It had a bug and it really wasn't being maintained anymore. The process was actually quite beneficial to the community in that case. That being said, I think the owner didn't understand English very well so I'm not sure he would have understood the emails from NPM support had he read them.