[Revan]

Well such a mod wouldn't require any vB hacking - come on, you're not stupid enough to propose this is integrated into showthread are you? - so that wouldn't be the main reason why they say no.

But allow me to point out the hole in this:
* The fact that not everybody would want strangers messing about with their coding.

Right now, Joe develops a mack... releases it... and spends his time supporting it. Jane wants to help, so she makes a post and attaches a bit o code in hopes that it may be folded into the current or future release however Joe is a pretty busy fella and doesnt have the time to check and integrate and release so Janes contribution gets buried.

Okay, so Joe releases his "mack"..? sod that, hack in such a repos, but he doesn't really know anybody on vBorg well enough, or they are merely members and not much of coders, so he doesn't add anyone to the dev team of his hack.
Guess what, we are back to square [insert complicated maths function that inevitably results in 1].
The only way to avoid Jane's code being lost is if Joe releases his hack with an open repos, so Jane can just fix the file herself. I won't even begin to list the multiple of reasons why this will never happen.

Unless theres something I was missing? Hm?