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.