Suggestion: best practices for patching others'/older mods

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WillyTheSquid wrote:Thanks for your reply, digdug! I agree that a dropbox link is not optimal; my gut feeling tells me most users won't scroll down the comments when downloading a mod. We could summarize this discussion on a wiki page, and also make a page (possibly add a Xelerus category) for unofficially updated player-made mods. A parallel (sticky) forum topic would also be worth considering.

Another idea: have a list of permissions on the wiki. "Feel free to use/update my stuff" or "ask permission first" etc etc -- for each user.

When this discussion has run its course, and some consensus has been reached I'm willing to make these wiki pages (& if support exists for it, a Xelerus category). And curate them for the foreseeable future.

Let me know what you all think.

Oh yeah, we had a discussion about liscenceing ahd having a selector for it on xelerus a while ago, I guess we could probably get by with xelerus categories for a couple different licences and "other" too until someone gets around to recoding xelerus >_>.

Not many modders here seem interested in specifiying ... anything, about their work, it seems ... especially the ones from a while ago ...
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Nice one. We could add licensing suggestions to the mod upload guidelines on the wiki/forum/Xelerus and encourage modders to specify them in their mods' comments or on the forum.
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Even a mention in the readme / xml (I usually do both) would be more than what I think a lot have ended up with; and suffice for people sufficently interested to interrogate the mod.
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