@McRuppert If you made this an open source mod project, you could still have control over the subversion releases and development if you wanted. The plus side is that you will have a ton of people helping you with everything. This means you wouldn't have to spend nearly as much time working on your mod and it would still get released to the public as long as you kept good oversight on it.
Please don't abandon this mod McRuppert. There are a lot of people interested in this still.