How to submit a game extension for review

After you've developed, tested and uploaded your extension to Nexus Mods, it can now be submitted to the Vortex team for reviewing.

This is a manual process and will go through various stages to make sure that that it works to a bare minimum level. The criteria for passing the review includes checking packaging, common issues, installing mods etc. as well as checking code for anything that could cause damage. Some of these are mentioned in How to package a game extension and How to test a game extension.

The review process is completed via a GitHub Issue Form (you will need a GitHub account to submit an extension for review) and it allows us and the extension author to

Your extension will be put under moderation while the review process is happening so that non-working extensions can be further developed before they get added properly.

Submission

Fill in the Review Extension form over at the Vortex repo on github.com. Please enter information accurately and follow any suggested documents that are mentioned.

One of our team will take a look and be in touch within 5 working days of submission.

If the extension passes the review process, it is removed from of moderation and added to our manifest file (so that it can be seen in Vortex).

If the extension fails, we will start the cycle to help get it working. This will be via comments on the issue and will contain what happened and what needs to change in order to pass. The author is welcome to ask questions, make changes and re-upload the extension to Nexus Mods when they are ready for us to take another look. This cycle can continue as long as necessary and is always visible on GitHub.

Few things to note on this development cycle:

• Increment the version number each time it is reuploaded to Nexus Mods and make sure it matches in the extension's info.json.
• There are various technical docs and code references currently floating around the internet. We are starting to check and consolidate all these into a central wiki.
• We will offer help, support and code snippets where we can to get the extension working.