Due to a certain "thing" that arose on the Discord server a couple of weeks back, I've drafted some proposed guidelines for reserving of names in the spreadsheet (using ideas from Timid):
- If your mod isn't released yet, consider adding contact info to the first sheet with the mod and author names (Discord username or email will be fine). This means that others who might want to use a reserved name can contact you about it.
- If someone wants to use a name in a mod that has not been released or has been inactive for some time, and can demonstrate a good-faith effort to contact the other author, they can use the name. (In line with point 1, authors who do not provide contact info while having unreleased mods must consider themselves more likely to lose the names involved.)
- There will be a general assumption that names for a mod that has not been in circulation for appreciable periods of time loses the strength of its claim to those names, doubly so if the mod has never been released.
These guidelines are fundamentally voluntary (certainly neither I nor Alex are going to enforce rules on name conflicts), but they should set better expectations to avoid squabbling.
Thoughts?