As a module author, I really don't agree with having to submit my module through you. I have nothing but the best regard for you personally, and I am not questioning your dedication to properly manage all this yourself. However, I'd still much prefer to manage (and fix) my own content directly. I see nothing about that which contradicts what you are attempting to do here with this challenge. I really do understand that your intentions are pure here, and that you do not mean to make things more difficult, but filtering everything through you seems like a bad idea that adds no real value.
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding your intention here. Exactly what problem are you trying to prevent by forcing everyone to only upload their submissions through you (at least initially)?
Are you worried that the "snapshot" at the end of the month will be tainted by subsequent author updates? Well, the need to publish post-release fixes is absolutely guaranteed. No one is going to want to download and play a module which contains known bugs for which there are already fixes. In fact, considering the very limited timeframe for development, it's reasonable to assume that there will be on average more bugs in these modules.
If (as I assume) you were expecting to personally handle exactly these kinds of updates, then all you're doing by forcing everyone to maintain their module through you is needlessly delaying the availaibility of each fix. You'd have to upload all of those yourself, as your busy schedule allows. For potentially 12-20 module authors. That is a ton of extra work that would be completed in a more timely and more efficient way if each author managed their own submission.
Or is is that you are worried that authors will keep working on their module after the deadline, by adding substantial new content? I see how that would sort of undermine the idea of the challenge, but honestly -- does anyone really care if that happens? Isn't the purpose of this entire exercise to
generate more content for the community? This is not a competition, and absolutely no one gets hurt if an author decides to take their submission somewhere that is not in line with the challenge rules. Feel free to exclude them from the list of links for that month if that occurs. Problem solved.
I haven't ignored what you said about linking to the "ongoing" version of the module, but that really doesn't fix my concerns, and it also creates additional problems. What's the value in having two versions of my module (one potentially buggy) available for download? That sort of thing has been done before on the Vault, and it always causes confusion. A simple link to the module author's submission is clearly better on all counts.
Based on your comments above, I see no value in you submitting everyone else's work and thereby limiting their ability to make timely updates directly themselves. If you can provide some convincing justification for taking that route I might be on board, but as things stand now what you're suggesting causes nothing but problems (and extra work for you). It makes no sense to me at all. And honestly, it doesn't seem fully respectful of the module authors and how they manage their own content with their players. I know that's not your intention at all, but I do think this topic deserves further discussion -- particularly if it might motivate authors like me to skip the challenge entirely.
Modifié par Invisig0th, 12 février 2013 - 06:08 .
