Hi,
I'm currently writing a large e-book and document reader powered by Rust. One of the file formats it supports is Microsoft's compressed HTML help files, chm. there's a crate that binds chmlib, but it hasn't been updated in over 6 years, doesn't build on the latest Rust, and the author hasn't responded to an issue I opened about it. I have fully working chmlib bindings for my project, and would like to publish them to crates.io. However, the name chm is taken by a CLI tool, and chmlib is taken by this stale, unmaintained project. I could go for chm-lib but that feels kind of ugly to me, and almost like I'm trying to typo-squat. Is there a more standardized way of handling stale crates like this? Could we maybe implement a policy that allows users to submit a request to reclaim a crate name after the repo has been stale for 5+ years?
Thanks!

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