Transfer Mod Authorship?
Afforess opened this issue · comments
There doesn't seem to be a good way to handle what happens when a mod is taken over by a new author. I could re-submit a mod, but then you have duplicates of the same name, which is confusing.
Case in point, Marathon mod. The database lists it as for 0.11x, and with the old author. But it should be listed as 0.12x, and with the old and new author: http://www.factorioforums.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=91&t=13567
We were talking about this the other day on a Skype conversation, the idea that came up was to create a new attribute on mods so you can mark them as "forks" of other mods. And afterwards, the releases of the forked mod would appear on the original mod as community releases, and mod managers would be able to pick from those releases too.
For now, until that's done, the recommended way would be to just submit a mod with the same name, it's not forbidden by validation, and both mods will show up if you search them on the API by mods?names=<mod_name>.
Another thing I want to point out is that the database is not fully automated yet, so there are many mods that just aren't there. I'm actually working on automating the data and releases of mods hosted on Github right now, after that I might consider fully automating the forum mods, but I'm not sure if it's gonna be worth it if people start using Github.