[theme-reviewers] Obsolete Themes Discussion

[Chip Bennett]

Suspended Themes are not available via Extend ( wordpress.org/extend/themes )
or via the WP-Admin Themes search, but they are still available via SVN (
themes.svn.wordpress.org ).

Chip

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Darren Slatten <darrenslatten at gmail.com>wrote:

> What happens when a Theme is suspended? Is it completely removed from the
> repo (as far as the public is concerned)?
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> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>wrote:
>
>> Just as an FYI, a WP 2.9 cutoff would put the cutoff on about Page 37<http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/browse/updated/page/37/>,
>> resulting in the suspension of 58 of 95 pages of Themes; and a WP 2.8 cutoff
>> would put the cutoff on about Page 57<http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/browse/updated/page/57/>,
>> resulting in the suspension of 38 of 95 pages of Themes.
>>
>> Cais: any further thoughts on your "secondary repository" idea, that we
>> might be able to implement here?
>>
>> Chp
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>wrote:
>>
>>> I support this as well, but we need buy-in from higher up.
>>>
>>> I would propose WordPress 2.9 (December 18, 2009) is the *ideal* cutoff -
>>> or, barring that, WordPress 2.8 (June 11 2009), as the "generous" cutoff.
>>>
>>> I will raise the flag, if there is general consensus?
>>>
>>> Chip
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Amy Hendrix <sabreuse at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I noticed that this theme was last updated in 2008 -- it seems like,
>>>> as we're just now gearing up for the next release cycle, it might be a
>>>> good time to revisit enforcement of the "must be kept up-to-date"
>>>> guideline? I'd welcome autosuspension of themes that haven't been
>>>> updated in n core versions with a "please update" message to the dev
>>>> (where n is a somewhat generous number).
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at themeid.com> wrote:
>>>> > Yes and thank you. Theme has been suspended from the directory. They
>>>> had at
>>>> > least one more site which was suspended in the past.
>>>> >
>>>> > ----
>>>> > Emil Uzelac | ThemeID | T: 224-444-0006 | Twitter: @EmilUzelac | E:
>>>> > emil at themeid.com | http://themeid.com
>>>> > Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. - Albert
>>>> Einstein
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 1:38 PM, esmi at quirm dot net <
>>>> esmi at quirm.net>
>>>> > wrote:
>>>> >>
>>>> >> <http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/3d-realty>
>>>> >>
>>>> >> The link on the theme's Repo page and in the footer of the theme
>>>> leads to
>>>> >> an SEO site. No mention of the theme anywhere on the SEO site.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Mel P.
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