problem with "contacting" the author, is that we don't always have the availability of a coder when he quit the community...

a forum like this would speed up the process: example:

i'm quitting in 4 weeks (may 22th) and i know my codes are needed... i simply have to drop a note in the adoption forum, and someone available will take care of my codes...

if i don't have that forum, i have to tag my releases as "unsuported", and make an announce in my sig about the fact...

also, this is not always the case that a coder will be willing to be contacted after some work done, and i see also in the releases some hacks released by non-coders not interested to support the scripts - because these scripts were done in a paid process, etc.. any reason is good.

this would become mostly a dropbox for codes...