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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=chip@chipbennett.net
href="mailto:chip@chipbennett.net">Chip Bennett</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, June 26, 2013 7:57 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org
href="mailto:theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org">[theme-reviewers]</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [theme-reviewers] Formal Request for Change of
Methodology.</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr>If you're going to propose a complete overhaul of the Theme Review
philosophy, that will require a complete rewrite of the Theme Review Guidelines.
Please proffer a replacement set of Guidelines - i.e. what exact content you
would have on the Theme Review Codex page. Then we can compare, contrast, and
discuss.
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 1:10 AM, Philip M. Hofer (Frumph)
<SPAN dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:philip@frumph.net"
target=_blank>philip@frumph.net</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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class=gmail_quote>1) Remove all requirements and recommendations, change it
all to 'best practices', do not remove anything in the codex just
yet.<BR><BR>2) Theme review process.<BR>* Theme reviewers tag a theme for
review. / It already passed the upload checker<BR>* Check theme with the other
plugin(s)[1] available for development, check it for notices, warnings, fatals
and deprecation messages, Pass/Fail<BR>* Check theme with theme unit
test. Pass/Fail<BR>* Review the tags, website links, theme name.
Pass/Fail<BR><BR>It's done, it's reviewed, it's over, if it passed all of
those, flag it as passing review and live.<BR><BR>3) Anything else missing on
the above list that is a MUST should be added to the list but only if it's a
MUST, and can't go live no exception.<BR><BR>[1] Make the plugins work for the
theme review team; add common security problems,
etc.<BR><BR>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<U></U>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<BR><BR>This
is it, this is all that is needed. Everything else is
icing on the cake for best practices.<BR><BR><BR>Themes are the 'meat and
potatoes' of WordPress, the idea that a theme must adhere and be cross
compatible with other themes in features is a nuance that is unnecessary to
worry about. Plugins are made to enhance themes; if a plugin
doesn't work with a theme the community WILL contact the author; they always
do. As long as the theme is up to date with core coding which all
of the tools at our disposal make you aware of - of which even the messages
from core will also state things it is unnecessary to do anything
otherwise.<BR><BR>// not sure about<BR>Not sure what Nacin wrote in entirety
on the Make site, but having the themes that are live and pass the upload
process and immediately go live again would be a boon; that basically makes it
like the theme developer has svn access, without having svn
access.<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>______________________________<U></U>_________________<BR>theme-reviewers
mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org"
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target=_blank>http://lists.wordpress.org/<U></U>mailman/listinfo/theme-<U></U>reviewers</A><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
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