Takeover HTML_Template_IT

The HTML_Template_IT package last had a release on 2010-03-10. It is currently broken due to use of a deprecated feature that is no longer supported in PHP 7.0+. A bug report for this was filed earlier this year but no action has been taken. I emailed the one person who is listed as an active maintainer but have received no response. The package also triggers other deprecation warnings that will likely become a problem in the future. I'm sure that there are many people who have not yet upgraded to PHP 7 who will run into these issues when they do. I would like to get them fixed before that happens. So I am requesting to be added to the project so I can do this. Also I'm not sure if I will see responses to this message. I have requested twice at http://pear.php.net/support/lists.php to be added to this list. The page displayed a message that I would be contacted with instructions to complete my registration but no such messages were ever received. I checked my junk and there is nothing, so I seem to be unable to join this list. I hope that somehow I can get this package fixed. Thanks.