[theme-reviewers] Theme submission fails on WARNING

[Philip M. Hofer (Frumph)]

What is the warning?  IT could just be an issue with the uploader script 
checker is all.



-----Original Message----- 
From: Bruce Wampler
Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 2:14 PM
To: theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
Subject: [theme-reviewers] Theme submission fails on WARNING

My theme is Weaver, and it consistently has been one of the most popular
themes available on WordPress.org. Until the past few weeks or so, it
has consistently been top 20, even top 10 occasionally - all without
ever being a Featured theme.

Weaver has advanced capabilities, and allows extreme customization by
the user. The most current version in the repository, 2.0, has been
extraordinarily stable, with no significant bugs. In fact, I worked
extensively with Chip to make sure 2.0 was as robust as possible, while
still allowing the advanced features my users have become accustomed to.

I would claim Weaver is one of the most advanced free themes available,
and I want to continue to have Weaver be available as a free theme to
the WordPress community.

So I just tried to submit a new version. The new version has no
significant logical changes to its basic structure from the extensively
reviewed 2.0 version. It provides a few new features and fixes a few
minor issues.

To my shock, the latest version of the theme was rejected by the
standard upload process with only one WARNING. In the past, WARNINGS
were just that - something that need further review before approval. Now
apparently, WARNINGS cause automatic rejection.

In this case, the only WARNING issued by the submission process for
fopen. As I said, Weaver is an advanced theme. It allows users to make
all kinds of customizations. It also does things users really want to
do, like save their theme settings to export to other sites, support
page/editor styling based on their settings and otherwise create backups
of their work. Weaver creates several files on the fly in the upload
directory to accomplish this user friendly behavior. These features are
very popular with my users, and the theme really can't exist without the
capability. The theme has been downloaded over 50,000 time, and I
suspect is in use by several thousand users. I have not received a
single report of any issue caused by creating files. There are no
security issues with the way Weaver uses file operations.

So, what is going on? How do I get the latest version of the theme
submitted? I've not been following the day to day discussions on this
group, but have you really banned fopen? Do you really want to take away
advanced features that require it from WordPress users? Does any WARNING
cause a rejection, and if so, they should be changed to an ERROR.

I really believe in my theme, and have spent hundreds of hours
developing it. My work with Chip on the theme represented a huge effort
to be sure Weaver was both robust, safe, and had the advanced features
WordPress users wanted. I need to know what I need to do to keep this
theme available to the WordPress community.  I think WordPress users
deserve access to a free, advanced theme that lets them take control of
their sites.

Or perhaps there is some other issue. Whatever, I can't submit my theme
using the standard upload process.

Awaiting feedback...

Bruce Wampler

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Bruce Wampler, Ph.D.

Software developer
Creator of first spelling checker for a PC
Creator of Grammatik(tm), first true grammar checker
e-mail: bw at brucewampler.com
blog: brucewampler.wordpress.com

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