Development Section Changes

[PurplePoot]

A number of changes have taken place to the development section recently:

• I (PurplePoot) am now the development director, and Rui will be handling maps and the Warcraft III Modding forums (Which he focused on already).
  
  
• The map rules have been tweaked slightly but crucially; maps now follow the same authorship rules as other resources in that you need to prove you have the author's permission to submit a map that is not yours.
  
  
• The spell rules have been rewritten, although many of the key points are the same.
  
  
• A new approach will be tried on the spells section. Don't expect any instantaneous change, as there are over 1,000 pending spells and rising. We'll be trying more so to reduce the amount slowly but steadily (as much as possible). As a side effect of this, spells won't get full code reviews, unless such reviews are specifically requested and a moderator has some free time.

EDIT: An update in the revival of the coding aspects of the site.

• aznricepuff will be handling the Jass section for the most part. He's relatively quiet outside of the coding forums, but is a great and helpful coder and guy.
  
  
• hvo-busterkomo will be handling the Spells section along with Dr. Super Good and Eccho. I'm sure most of you know him already, and for those who don't, he's a helpful coder with a good deal of knowledge and experience.

 

[TheDivineBoss]

Congrats for you, enjoy your new job while it still lasts.

 

[Devine]

Once again, congratulations poot.
I'm glad about the changes

 

[baassee]

Love the changes, especially about the spell section

 

[Septimus]

What about rules for campaign genre map?

 

[PurplePoot]

What about rules for campaign genre map?

Hawkwing is reorganizing all the rules to be a consistent format, so we may do some more tweaks (like specific Campaign rules) then.

 

[Septimus]

So, Hawkwing are responsible for map rules? I would help him to sort out a few specific rules then.

 

[Paladon]

Welcome hvo.
Welcome aznricepuff, although i've honestly never heard of you before.

Let's see how the changes are taking place.

 

[PurplePoot]

So, Hawkwing are responsible for map rules? I would help him to sort out a few specific rules then.

Nah, he's just reorganizing them. What I meant to say was that we'll work something out, and it will be included when the new arrangement is done.

Welcome aznricepuff, although i've honestly never heard of you before.

Yeah, as I said, he's pretty quiet outside of the coding forums.

 

[HyperActive]

Congrats to all, and good luck.

as there are over 1,000 pending spells

I've had to see it to believe it.

 

[Pyritie]

I've had to see it to believe it.

http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/apps.php?p=pendingstats

 

[Arvedui]

Congrats on the promotion PurplePoot. Congrats to hvo-busterkomo and aznricepuff on your promotions as well.

I'm glad to see that change is happening, and from what I can tell, for the better.

Good luck to you guys.

 

[Hawkwing]

So, Hawkwing are responsible for map rules? I would help him to sort out a few specific rules then.

They're just being reorganized, like PurplePoot said, to be more consistent with the other sets of rules, which have been changed.

 

[TKF]

[*]The map rules have been tweaked slightly but crucially; maps now follow the same authorship rules as other resources in that you need to prove you have the author's permission to submit a map that is not yours.

How strict is that? As strict as in wc3c where you get your map deleted unless the author himself to put a post to acknowledge authorship? How do the staff view on that now?

 

[Hakeem]

As strict as in wc3c where you get your map deleted unless the author himself to put a post to acknowledge authorship?

I think that is a bit silly. Verification will vary case by case.

 

[Palaslayer]

hvo-busterkomo! hail our new spell mod! lulz he had to delete his spell because it was not even mui...

 

[busterkomo]

I deleted all of my spells to reduce the number of pending spells in the database. It was MUI, I'm not sure why you think it wasn't.

 

[PurplePoot]

How strict is that? As strict as in wc3c where you get your map deleted unless the author himself to put a post to acknowledge authorship? How do the staff view on that now?

As Hakeem said, that's a little too strict, as the main use of this is if the author doesn't want to create an account. Providing an e-mail or something would be enough, and if it turned out you faked it the consequences would, of course, be severe.

 

[Dual-Cross]

Congrats Bro. Here is a present.

 

[Palaslayer]

i say it because i didnt work fr multiple units. thats all. and others said that, too. a spell mod should be able to create mui spells though.

 

[Rui]

Glad you're back.

Welcome, hvo-busterkomo and aznricepuff.

 

[Traxamillion]

Fuck Yeah, I always wanted you back at development Poot you know that.

 

[Rising_Dusk]

As strict as in wc3c where you get your map deleted unless the author himself to put a post to acknowledge authorship?

I'd appreciate it if you didn't make up rules and make WC3C sound stingey. A PM, email, post, screenshot of any of the above, or a posting of the unprotected version of a map somewhere would be sufficient. It's also not as if making a map of the "footies" genre is against the rules or something; the rule for author permission only matters for maps of the same name where authorship of original content if questionable. Very rarely is something actually graveyarded because of authorship issues such as these.