I see that as something related, even required - but separate from what Phil suggests.<div><br></div><div>At this point, I am in favor of suspending Themes not updated within a set time frame (1 year, 2 major WP releases, etc.).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Chip<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 10:16 PM, Amy Hendrix <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sabreuse@gmail.com" target="_blank">sabreuse@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Instead of spending the time/energy to do a mass emailing to which<br>
very few will respond (or they would've been keeping their themes up<br>
to date all along), I'd rather see this ticket from Cais:<br>
<a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/16868" target="_blank">http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/16868</a> get into core.<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Otto <<a href="mailto:otto@ottodestruct.com">otto@ottodestruct.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Points of note:<br>
><br>
> - Like plugins, themes older than 2 years don't show up in search<br>
> results (except for exact name matches).<br>
><br>
> - Despite the "deprecation", nothing has ever been removed from the<br>
> WordPress core.<br>
><br>
> -Otto<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Philip M. Hofer (Frumph)<br>
> <<a href="mailto:philip@frumph.net">philip@frumph.net</a>> wrote:<br>
>> I brought it up a year ago and it's about that time again.<br>
>><br>
>> Notifying theme authors up to a certain revision requesting them to update<br>
>> their themes; also decaying / removing themes up to a certain point.<br>
>><br>
>> One of the things that I am concerned about (and help me with this) is the<br>
>> deprecated functions in the core. How long do those deprecated functions<br>
>> stay in the deprecated file before being completely dropped, or do they stay<br>
>> - forever as deprecated?<br>
>><br>
>> Anyways, back to mass notification - our earliest theme dates 2008-7-25<br>
>> right now. That's almost 4 years.<br>
>><br>
>> The roadmap: <a href="http://wordpress.org/about/roadmap/" target="_blank">http://wordpress.org/about/roadmap/</a> shows that that, that<br>
>> particular theme was released directly after 2.6 - as we know the theme<br>
>> coding standard has increased exponentially since then.<br>
>><br>
>> I would be inclined to think that themes made previous to December 18, 2009<br>
>> (2.9) be contacted and request for theme update, removal or put on the<br>
>> "adoption" list.<br>
>><br>
>> Last year someone mentioned that the theme's list can have extra coding<br>
>> installed to denote "out of date", "needs updating", "up for adoption",<br>
>> "featured", etc.. in the actual search results. I do not know what came<br>
>> of that or if that is even something we can do.<br>
>><br>
>> What are your thoughts, since I'm necro'ing this topic.<br>
>><br>
>> Note: Necro'ing = bringing a topic back from the dead.<br>
>><br>
>> - Phil<br>
>><br>
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