adopting "fastlink"?

["Ecorreo@EMarina" <correo@carleos.etsiig.uniovi.es>]

Hello. I'm not a Debian maintainer, but I'm interested in maintain packages related to genetics or statistics. I've seen that packages like "fastlink" or "phylip" got orphaned. My question is:
- should I send an ITA replying the O message? 
- should I submit a "new maintainer's application" first?
I'm not sure this is the right list where I have to ask this question. Many thanks.

Carlos Enrique Carleos Artime
Dpt. of Statistics and Operational Research 
University of Oviedo
SPAIN

E-mail: carleos @ pinon . ccu . uniovi . es