<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><b>Please take a step back and read the following everyone, including you @Trent.</b><br></div><div><br>The direction of this discussion is moot, silly and the idea of a vote is absurd so please let's move past that.<br><div><br></div>Please,
no more arguing or subjective speculation and let's look at a rational
and logical outline of the problem objectively. Our end-goal always (for
admins, theme reviewers, theme developers and the general community),
is to find out what works best for the end-user.<br><br><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/themes/handbook/guidelines/license-theme-name-credit-links-up-sell-themes/#theme-name" target="_blank">https://make.wordpress.org/themes/handbook/guidelines/license-theme-name-credit-links-up-sell-themes/#theme-name</a><br><br></div>First
of all, there's really no hard-and-fast rule in the guidelines that
covers this exact scenario, I would say this issue is pretty gray and
open to interpretation and while we (CyberChimps) don't expect special
treatment, the consideration of making an exception is always on the
table if there's a good reason and we ask please to look at this with
fresh eyes.<br><br></div>1. We're not going to retire the original Responsive theme found here:<br><br><a href="http://wordpress.org/themes/responsive" target="_blank">http://wordpress.org/themes/responsive</a><br><br></div>While
the idea that millions depend on Responsive is a little much to grasp,
let's be generous and say there's at least 100k active users that rely
on Responsive. I'm sure we can all agree with that, although doing the
right thing doesn't require a quota.<br><br></div>2. We've completely overhauled Responsive. While it's still definitely Responsive (check it out yourself: <a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/download/responsive-ii.0.0.1.zip" target="_blank">https://wordpress.org/themes/download/responsive-ii.0.0.1.zip</a>),
it has been updated to the point where it will without a doubt destroy
any current website on version 1.0 that automatically updates to version
2.0, and we all know that even with a warning message (that I myself
kept pushing for: <a href="http://wordpress.org/ideas/topic/upgradeupdate-warnings" target="_blank">http://wordpress.org/ideas/topic/upgradeupdate-warnings</a>), people are still going to blindly update without a second thought and certainly without making a backup.<br><br></div>3.
The logical solution? Release this major version as its own separate
entity, this happens all the time in the plugin repo, makes sense and is
not the least bit confusing.<br><br></div>a. We fully intend on continuing to support version 1.0 with bug fixes.<br><br></div>b.
We're also ready to release a completely new version of Responsive,
which isn't a completely different theme so still needs to retain the
name in some form, it would actually be confusing not to. Whether we
call it "Responsive II" (makes the most sense), "Responsive Neu" or
whatever, that is out prerogative, because "Responsive" is not a generic
term in this sense. Other may not use it in their theme name, but we
can not because of special treatment, but because Responsive, in terms
of WordPress theme names is our proven common law trademark.<br><br></div>c. It's not confusing. In the 1.0 version's description at the top and in its forum, it's not difficult to place a note:<br><br></div>"NOTE
- There is a completely new version of Responsive here:
<a href="http://wordpress.org/themes/responsive-ii">wordpress.org/themes/responsive-ii</a>. Upgrading is optional, but if you
choose to upgrade it will break your old installs, so you need to
prepare your new site in a testing environment before going live."<br></div>