A note on inclusion of addons into official wire.

[Anticept]

I have seen many many polls and comments asking for addon inclusion in the official Wire Mod. Allow me to put a few things forward before you pursue this path.

You need to understand that Wire is a Maintainer type repository. It functions similar to Linux. When a maintainer contributes a package to a Linux distro, they are taking responsibility for it, and typically they are the only ones who repair or rewrite that package.

Now, apply this to wire. If they allowed everyone to get their addons included, it would probably mean that half of the addons will stop being maintained within a month or so (You now know why some wire tools are ancient and semi-broken). This also means that we would end up with a megarepo with a thousand newbie coders and only 5-6 pros, which would turn into a mess (since Lua isn't clean with keeping each script in their own environment, it would take a long time to track down subtle bugs).

Please keep this in mind, next time you decide to make a poll thread or a megapost asking for inclusion .