Project Rejections Other Authors Work If you upload a project that is not your own, it will not be accepted on CurseForge/WowAce. Forking/Cloning This doesn't apply is if you have a legitimate change you created and the project in question has a license that would allow you to make said changes. Any license that follows the Open Source Definition is forkable by definition. The only other time you could upload an addon that is not solely your work is if you have the explicit permission of the...
Project Definitions What is an abandoned project? Really there are two types of abandoned projects. There are ones that we've marked as abandoned, and there are ones that are abandoned in practise but not in name. We give projects a long time, a very long time, before we mark them as abandoned. So these types are considered essentially dead. However, they can be resurrected. The second category of abandoned projects are those that just haven't been updated in a long time, the project leader...
Drama is for raiding guilds, not addon programmers Due to recent "drama flash fires", we are instituting a one-warning anti-drama policy. This policy will apply to both forum threads and site pages. Fires over the Forum In the event drama begins on the forums, please report the post to a moderator. If it is deemed as a potential fire-starter, the thread will receive a big bold warning. If the drama continues, the thread will be locked. Repeat offenders will be warned, required to sing the...
Reason for Policy Executable files pose additional dangers for end-users. These files may infect the host computer with different malicious software, which potentially could lead to the user accounts being compromised. As a result, extra precautions are in place for any executable code submitted to CurseForge/WowAce. Executable Submission Source Code Any executable files submitted to CurseForge or WowAce must be accompanied by its source code. A code review on the source code will be done to...
