> I would like to take over a module that's currently in contrib, in this case profile_pages. 
> I've contacted the maintainer, PyromanFO, and he's happy to let me do so, but neither
> of us know what to do next.  I did some searching, because I'm sure this process is
> documented somewhere, but I couldn't find anything.  So, does anyone know how this is done?

see http://drupal.org/node/59