title: Pypi: can I claim to be the new maintainer of an unmaintained package?
body: <p>I have done quite a lot of work on a python package named <strong>"django-hstore"</strong> recently (link to my repo: <a href="https://github.com/nemesisdesign/django-hstore">https://github.com/nemesisdesign/django-hstore</a>), the latest version published on pypi has been released more than a year ago (link to pypi: <a href="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-hstore/1.1.1">https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-hstore/1.1.1</a>), but the very curious thing is that the github repository linked on pipy is not the one of the original author.</p>
  
  <p>Moreover, this github user doesn't seem to have any commit with its github account (<a href="https://github.com/aino/django-hstore">https://github.com/aino/django-hstore</a>). He hasn't answered so far to my email and pull request, what happens if he doesn't answer at all?</p>
  
  <p>My questions are:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Can I claim to be the new mantainer of this package? Is there a way to do so?</li>
  <li>Have ever happened a similar occurrence?</li>
  </ol>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Note: </p>
    
    <p>I'm sorry if this question is not specific about programming, but I
    think it's still related to programming somehow... if there is any
    better stackexchange site to ask this question please let me know.</p>
  </blockquote>