Modern Firearms: Patch Policy

[Isinerath]

Alright, folks.

I'm here with permission from the lead developer and current face of the Modern Firearms mod due to recent events. A Nexus member, @DrunkenSavage, recently uploaded a 'patch' for Modern Firearms 2.6. Normally, this wouldn't be an issue except... he neither checked with the Modern Firearms dev-team, nor properly accredited them. He also didn't list Modern Firearms as a requirement(via linking to the site).

The only reason people became aware of his 'patch' in the MF Discord is because a member DMed the head developer asking how to update it to the lastest version, 2.6.1, which already has a built-in MCM/hotkey menu item that allows you to scale the damage of Modern Firearms weaponry as you see fit on the end-user side. When confronted about this by the head developer, DrunkenSavage hid his 'patch' to avoid further repercussions.

 

Now, to culminate this, the Modern Firearms team has updated their Patch Policy. You can find it here: https://modern-firearms-fo4.info/informations/patch-policy/

But for you lazy SOBs who will try to avoid clicking that link and feigning ignorance in the future...

Patch Policy

If you want to start to make or finish a patch for MF/MA, be it for compatibility or to change things inside MF/MA, you are free to publish it. But to save us from false bug reports, that your patch actually created, PLEASE FOLLOW THIS SIMPLE POLICY:

1. Let us know what mod you’re patching for. As more patches get made, we’ll be starting a list of “known good” patches, but it’s hard to do that if we don’t know what exists.
2. Make sure you’re building your patch for the latest build.
3. Let us look over the patch before you publish, so we can help find issues that you might have missed.
4. Take responsibility for keeping the patch updated. It’s not our job to track what patches are updated for which build.
5. Do not EVER build your patch as a plugin replacer. If you don’t know how to make edits in a new plugin with the mod you’re editing as a master, you probably shouldn’t be making patches.

Follow this patch policy to the letter and you’ll have no issues with us. We cannot possibly properly explain how much it irks us when people make patches following none of this, and then we get bombarded with bug reports for something that is not our responsibility, and that we had no idea even existed until that point.


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I'll edit this post as the MF team sees fit. To Nexus staff, you now have something to look over and consider in future reports on broken patches. You can thank me later, even if some of your moderators are overzealous.

 

Edited August 6, 2019 by Isinerath

[horsepwr350]

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