Very good news! Thank you, thank you. I was just starting to work on my server mod manager again. Looks like I'll put that on hold 
About how long before the change will be available (weeks, months)?
Will it be possible to put out a developer preview?
Here you can have a little look at what I've written.
It's not finished yet. But you can also edit like .
Administration.lua is not standalone - there is no way to run the code for debugging or testing.
So many commands are missing: sscanf, SendPlayerMessage, LogString, GetMaxPlayers, getCharacterById, IsPlayerConnected, character:*, SendPlayerMessage, PlayAnimation... the list goes on and on.
Did this come from another game engine? If so, it's really not useful at all. 
Lots of fixes and updates today. Main show stopper from me running this on my main server is the lack of privilege support. Will be working on that in the next day or two.
Below is an example Message of the day module.
[lua]
-- Copyright (c) 2014, Jeffrey Clark. This file is licensed under the
-- Affero General Public License version 3 or later. See the COPYRIGHT file.
modMotd = {
new = function()
self = ModBase.new()
self.name = "Message of the day"
self.author = "h0tw1r3"
self.version = 0.1
-- Module initilization
db:queryupdate("CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `motd` (`ID` INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT NOT NULL, `time` INTEGER, `message` VARCHAR);");
-- Internal methods
self.broadcastMotd = function(self)
server:brodcastTextMessage(self:prettyMotd())
end
self.prettyMotd = function(self, motd)
if not motd then motd = self:getMotd() end
return string.format("[#FFA500]** %s -- %s", motd.message, os.date("%x %X", motd.time))
end
self.getMotd = function(self)
-- TODO: cache result
local motd = { time = 0, message = "No message of the day" }
result = db:query("SELECT * FROM motd ORDER BY time DESC LIMIT 1;")
if result:next() then
motd.time = result:getInt("time")
motd.message = result:getString("message")
end
result:close()
return motd
end
-- Client commands and help list
self.commands['motd'] = {
callback = function(event, command, action, message)
if not action then
event.player:sendTextMessage(self:prettyMotd())
elseif action == "broadcast" then
self:broadcastMotd()
elseif action == "list" then
-- TODO
ModManager:sendPlayerCommandHelp(event.player, command, "list not implemented yet")
elseif action == "set" and message then
db:queryupdate("INSERT INTO motd (time, message) VALUES (strftime('%s', 'now'), '" .. message .. "')")
event.player:sendTextMessage("motd set")
else
ModManager:sendPlayerCommandHelp(event.player, command, "Invalid command usage, see /help " .. command)
end
return true
end,
help = {
"set <message>",
"broadcast => send motd to all players",
"list => show last 5 messages",
" => show motd",
}
}
-- Global timers
self.timers['Broadcast'] = {
-- Broadcast motd every 60 minutes, forever
frequency = 3600,
count = -1,
callback = function() self:broadcastMotd() end
}
-- Event hooks
self.events['PlayerSpawn'] = {
callback = function(event)
event.player:sendTextMessage(self:prettyMotd())
end,
}
return self
end
}
[/lua]
The things in script.lua seems to be made by himself though.
Take a look at the first version of my script on github. I'm not trying to make a big deal, just saying.
@Hroudtwolf
can you edit it i have downloaded a lua editor but i dont know what im doing wrong if you edit it i can see my fault
/soapbox Taking credit for something you didn't write is really not the best way to get help from people who know what they are doing. 90% of what you claim to have written was taken from my h0tstuff script, except you removed my name, the AGPL license and even the author note for the explode function. Just wow... Not Cool.
I'm slowly rewriting my h0tstuff script into something more manageable / extendable. Figured I would share my progress. I'm not running this on my server yet.
Right now it is basic plugin framework and a couple example modules; Welcome Message and Motd.
Suggestions appreciated.
https://github.com/Clarkmania/rising-world-h0tmod
Supports run-time hooking of events, commands, and timers. Will be adding an admin module next for enabling and disabling modules on the fly.
Nevermind! Very sorry for the noise.
Turns out to be the error message is misleading.
I had a typo in the function name to the addEvent call. Once that was fixed the event was added correctly.
I understand that just before onEnable (lua) is invoked, enabled is set to true (java) which prevents addEvent (lua) from being called again. No problem there.
The events are added before the onEvent lua function is even invoked. It happens at mod:attach(ModManager). I could break out IntelliJ and debug the java, but I figured I would ask first.
Removing ModManager:list() had no effect.
I also tried upgrading to the lastest LuaJ release, didn't help.
This is the original "bug" report, but as it turns out I was calling addEvent with an nil function.
While playing around with writing a "modmanager" to clean-up my nasty script, I ran into a bit-wall.
I am implementing a manager object which other objects (mods) can attach to.
The manager automatically calls addEvent for any event functions in the mod(s) object when it is attached.
When I run the server, enable is flipped before addEvent's are called *and* before onEnable is called.
Not sure why, but I think java LuaScript.enabled is set before lua onEnable is actually invoked.
I've added print statements everywhere. Code seems to be processed in the correct order.
Does LuaScript "this.script.call()" return immediately after parsing or something? I'm baffled. 
Please share your progress. I'll help if I can.
Pushed to Github:
Please add trigger events for:
The ban command works fine when running a LAN only server, but not for wan. Error is caught when trying to insert the record into the Banlist table.
Basically the MacAddress it's trying to resolve doesn't exist for internet connections.
Ban support was difficult to fully test by myself as I only have one copy of the RW.
Please report any bugs on Github.
Pushed to Github:
No, server locked up... Well actually the networking went down. Not sure why. I reported it to the hosted provider and rebooted.
Back up now.
Pushed to github:
Changed:
Going out of town today. Don't expect I'll have a chance to make more changes until next week.
Looking good so far.
Maybe you could implement a basic 'voting' system? Just an up/down to see how it'd go.
Good idea. How about a +1 or Like?
http://risingworld.zaplabs.com/
Front-end information is bare at the moment, but the database schema is complete.
Planned features:
