[DarrenHill]

It's open source software - anyone is perfectly able and welcome to fork add-ons and make their own versions which they can upkeep as they wish, including submission to the official repo.

To save confusion though and multiple parallel versions, it would make most sense for interested people to talk amongst themselves and form a team or at least come to an agreement to save later problems and need for renaming etc of branches and such. That's probably fairly important in this case as many other add-ons rely on this one, and so the internal naming is important for that continuing to work.

I'd suggest you speak to Kolifanes (and maybe even Bromix just out of courtesy) and then take it from there. And if anyone else wants to join the team or have an input, then they can contact you as well.

I'll ask some of the team members to comment if they would see any issues with such a proposal, from my side I'm just trying to guide things to a solution that everyone's happy with and that we can all benefit from via an updated and fully working add-on being available in the official repo for everyone (to be clear, I don't have any say on what may or may not be accepted into the official repo, as my own coding skills aren't good enough to review code etc with any reliability either).