I just finished my new theme Grayscale, after checking the front-end of <a href="http://wp.org">wp.org</a> to make sure it was available and of course I didn't think to check the trac and blam, was met with the dreaded:<br>
<br><i>"There is already a theme called 'grayscale' by a different author.
Please change the name of your theme in style.css and upload it again."</i><br><br>The original person who tried to use this name last tried over two years ago and wasn't approved:<br><br><a href="https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2366">https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2366</a><br>
<br>I also followed the link to the theme URI:<br><br><a href="http://mazznoer.web.id/wordpress-themes/grayscale/">http://mazznoer.web.id/wordpress-themes/grayscale/</a><br><br>And it just 404s and it doesn't appear the theme was ever otherwise finished and promoted under any other means. Perhaps the author is on this list, I'll otherwise see if I can contact them. In any case, if they have no intention of ever finishing their theme...<br>
<br><b>@Otto</b> - Would you be able and willing to transfer the <i>grayscale</i> theme name to my WP username <i>bhadaway</i>?<br><br>Here's their profile: <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/mazznoer">http://profiles.wordpress.org/mazznoer</a> (which links to their website), but there's no contact info whatsoever (or really any means to communicate with them that I can tell). If they're totally MIA is it still possible to release the theme name?<br>
<br>Thanks, Bryan<br>