[theme-reviewers] Submitting a One-Page Placeholder Theme

[Chip Bennett]

I am worried about the potential for abuse, if this is solely tag-based.

What about adding a theme-slug bypass filter to the uploader script, whereby
"niche" Themes bypass non-critical checks, based on a registered theme-slug?

Chip

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Edward Caissie <edward.caissie at gmail.com>wrote:

> There may be a relatively simple solution to by-passing the upload checks:
> add a flag (read: theme tag) similar to BuddyPress themes that by-passes
> certain aspects of the upload checks (Theme Check, too?)
> Then if the Theme Author chooses to use this "niche" tag; they would be
> required (aside from mandatory Theme documentation) to explain why they are
> using the niche tag in the (initial?) Trac ticket(s).
>
> Is something like this a good starting point/doable?
>
>
> Cais.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>
>> wrote:
>> > Oh, I see what you mean. :)
>> > I don't really see that as a "method", insofar as we can't directly *do*
>> > anything about the request. Right now, we'd have to rely on Otto
>> bypassing
>> > the system, somehow - which requires his time and effort, so obviously,
>> we
>> > try to be as judicial as possible with such requests.
>> > Chip
>>
>> No worries. :)
>>
>> Come up with guidelines and such to do it and let me handle the
>> technical aspects. It isn't hard to add some kind of special case code
>> to bypass the checks.
>>
>> Just hammer out when and why and how the process should happen and so
>> on. What is a special case? When should they be allowed? When should
>> they not be? That sort of thing.
>>
>> -Otto
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