[theme-reviewers] Abandoned/Changed Theme Name, Requesting Transfer

[Scott Sousa]

Chip,

Thanks for steering the topic back on track. A potential issue with 
keeping abandoned theme names with the original author would be: does 
that open the table up for squatting? That is to say if the original 
author always gets to keep the theme name, what's to stop someone from 
submitting a theme with that name to reserve it? In this case, Journal 
was not approved, yet the name still remains with the original author. 
Just a thought.

Scott

On 4/18/2014 4:45 PM, Chip Bennett wrote:
> I think the question of *prudent* Theme name choices is a valid 
> discussion, but a completely separate one. We've gone down that road 
> before, and personally, I don't want to get into the highly subjective 
> (and controversial) issue of trying to be gatekeepers for Theme Names, 
> aside from the basics we've got established currently.
>
> The more important (and interesting) underlying question here is: what 
> to do with abandoned (or changed) Theme names? Do we want to have some 
> way to release abandoned Theme names (that is: names for Themes that 
> are in SVN, but never got approved to be listed in the directory)? Or 
> do we want to say: once claimed, it's gone; just pick a different name?
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Srikanth Koneru <tskk79 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:tskk79 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     "Journal", "Magazine" they have tremendous value too, top in
>     serp's value :)
>
>
>     On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 2:08 AM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com
>     <mailto:otto at ottodestruct.com>> wrote:
>
>         There are least two other themes not on WordPress.org named
>         "Journal" as well:
>
>         http://themeforest.net/item/journal-elegant-responsive-wordpress-blog-theme/6629402
>         http://themeforest.net/item/journal-responsive-readable-wordpress-blog-theme/3921914
>
>         So, I'm not exactly saying no, but I am strongly suggesting
>         that you might want to rethink your naming choice here. Having
>         a unique name is a fairly important thing. Additionally, I
>         hesitate to give a theme a name that commonplace, and would
>         not want other people using a theme with that name to suddenly
>         see an "update" for a theme that isn't the one they're
>         currently running.
>
>         Names matter. Pick a good one.
>
>         -Otto
>
>
>
>         On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Scott Sousa
>         <scott at slocumstudio.com <mailto:scott at slocumstudio.com>> wrote:
>
>             Hi Theme Reviewers,
>
>             This message is for Otto. Regarding this tweet sent by
>             Chip,
>             https://twitter.com/chip_bennett/status/457238636270845952, we'd
>             like to see if we can have the theme name "Journal"
>             transferred to our Slocum Themes/Slocum Studio
>             (@slocumstudio) account.
>
>             Here's a bit of back-story:
>
>             We have a new theme that we'd like to submit named
>             "Journal". After submitting, the theme-bot let us know
>             that there was already a theme with that name. After doing
>             a bit of research, we came across this ticket,
>             https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/15796#comment:6,
>             which appears to have been abandoned and the theme name
>             has since changed. Here's a link to the theme as it
>             currently sits on GitHub:
>             https://github.com/bestwebsoft/journalism-wordpress-theme.
>
>             Is it possible to transfer the "Journal" theme name to our
>             account? Our trac/WordPress.org username is "slocumstudio"
>             (http://profiles.wordpress.org/slocumstudio/). Please let
>             us know if any other information is required.
>
>             Thank you for your time,
>             Scott
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