[theme-reviewers] theme-reviewers Digest, Vol 2, Issue 29

[Edward Caissie]

As a follow up to the parent theme being in the repository ...

Should not the parent theme meet or exceed all current requirements before
child themes can be uploaded for it? Granted this may be very difficult to
do for the existing bulk of the themes in the repository, but from a
specific go-forward date it may not be as difficult. For example, child
themes of Twenty Ten can be allowed as Twenty Ten passes all criteria for
being hosted in the repository, whereas a theme that has not been updated in
"years" would likely not pass current standards making the review of the
child theme near impossible to bear on its own merits.


Cais.

On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Joseph Scott <joseph at josephscott.org>wrote:

> There are some situations that come up with this.  For instance, you
> mentioned that the parent should be in the theme directory.  What
> happens if a parent theme gets removed from the directory?
>
> I don't think the various issues that come need to be show stoppers,
> but it is worth walking through them to figure out what the answers
> should be (then likely document it on the Codex).
>
> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>
> wrote:
> > I think the only requirement should be that child themes should be
> limited to
> > parent themes available in the repository (to ensure that neither
> reviewers
> > nor end users have to go to any third-party sources for the parent
> theme).
> >
> > As for the reviewers: as long as the parent theme is available in the
> > repository, I don't think reviewing a child theme will pose any
> particular
> > inconvenience.
> >
> > In other words: I'm all for it!
>
>
>
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