The idea of cleaning up the older themes in the repository is a good one and needs to be addressed.<br><br>I think a review cycle cut-off would be fine, and I would be happy with two for the time being ... and perhaps one down the road.<br>
<br>I think a general mailing to all authors of all themes should go out ... give fair warning what the plan is. Then let the reviewers have at 'em.<br><br>Following along the process outlined by Chip, every theme should be given a fair chance to continue being available from the repository with a simple review, being old does not necessarily mean outdated (although likely). It would be theme age discrimation to simply suspend them for not being recently updated. I would suggest a very high level tertiary look, one deprecated function found and the theme can be suspended ... continuing up to the release cycle cut-off suggested.<br>
<br>@esmi - regarding the theme you want to "retire" send a note to the mailing list with the theme name (and version) and one of the admins can suspend it. The theme will be removed from the public facing repository pages but still available for update if you change your mind.<br>
<br><br>Cais<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Chip Bennett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chip@chipbennett.net">chip@chipbennett.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
I don't think that would be a problem. Just email the list as a whole, and request that the Theme be removed.<div><br></div><div>Chip<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 3:36 PM, esmi at quirm dot net <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:esmi@quirm.net" target="_blank">esmi@quirm.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">on 14/08/2010 21:11 Chip Bennett said the following:<br>
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1) Any Theme not updated within the previous X WordPress release cycles is automatically suspended. <br>
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Will theme developers be able to "retire" specific themes by request? I have at least 1 theme in the directory that I am no longer developing and that I'd love to simply remove but as far as I'm aware, there's been no mechanism for this previously.<br>
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It might cut down on the amount of auditing that needs doing on "suspended" themes.<br>
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