[theme-reviewers] My First Suggest-Approval *sniff*

[yulian yordanov]

  May be the truth is that till now most of the theme authors didn't 
bothered to follow what is new in WordPress releases. For instance I had 
found deprecated elements since v.2.2. So what should we do in such a 
case - to encourage the authors continue using them (and depreciate your 
work on new versions); or leave the notes in review that this elements 
need to be changed?
BTW the pluggin *Log Deprecated Notices *is quite handy for this  
purpose because it not only shows what is deprecated but it gives an 
alternative what to be used instead. The bigger part of authors accept 
these notes with understanding (based upon the feedback in tickets) so I 
can't see the problem here.

Yulian <Fingli>

On 12.9.2010 21:09, Andrew Nacin wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net 
> <mailto:chip at chipbennett.net>> wrote:
>
>     Do you have *specific* examples of onerous or unnecessary review
>     requirements? Quite honestly, the review queue remains steady at
>     60+ Themes. We don't have time for navel-gazing.  But if there are
>     *specific* requirements that need to be addressed, we're always up
>     for looking at them. (I've actually got a couple to bring up
>     myself, regarding the Theme Unit Tests.)
>
>
> Yes. I've said previously on this list (in an email that received no 
> replies) that I do not believe that themes should be rejected for 
> notices and deprecated calls. This is coming from the individual who 
> implemented deprecated argument handling, spent dozens of hours 
> tracking down version numbers for deprecated functions, preaches 
> WP_DEBUG [0, 1, 2], and wrote the logging plugin you use.
>
> [0] http://www.andrewnacin.com/tag/wp_debug/
> [1] http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/13176
> [2] http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/13185
>
> That's not to say that theme authors shouldn't be encouraged to 
> rectify notices on future theme submissions, or that the tolerance 
> level shouldn't go down on successive submissions by that author. But 
> it all depends on the notice, and it all depends on the deprecated 
> call. If notices and deprecated calls cannot be properly evaluated for 
> severity, then they should not be evaluated at all.
>
>
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Yulian Yordanov
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