<div dir="ltr">I think Chip is talking about the reverse, submitting a theme to directory with a name thats highly popular elsewhere.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 2:36 AM, Otto <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:otto@ottodestruct.com" target="_blank">otto@ottodestruct.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="">On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Chip Bennett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chip@chipbennett.net" target="_blank">chip@chipbennett.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>My biggest concern here is that these requests require a personal demand on your time, and as such should be limited as much as possible. Without an automated process, it is unreasonable to ask you to make more such ownership name-changes than absolutely necessary. That's why I always respond that the decision is up to your prerogative. :)</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>In the long run, things like this will get changed to be easier. The themes directory needs more parity with the plugins directory. And many other changes as well.</div><div class="">
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<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>I've long wondered what we do with names of commercial Themes? How do we police/control that? I don't mean submitting actual commercial Themes, but submitting completely *different* Themes, by the same name?</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Not following you here. A theme being sold elsewhere should presumably disable the theme update mechanism for itself and download its updates from some other site instead.</div>
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<div><br></div><div>-Otto</div><div><br></div></font></span></div></div></div>
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