[theme-reviewers] Decaying of older themes and mass emailing users pre 3.0 to update their theme.

[Chip Bennett]

I see that as something related, even required - but separate from what
Phil suggests.

At this point, I am in favor of suspending Themes not updated within a set
time frame (1 year, 2 major WP releases, etc.).

Chip

On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 10:16 PM, Amy Hendrix <sabreuse at gmail.com> wrote:

> Instead of spending the time/energy to do a mass emailing to which
> very few will respond (or they would've been keeping their themes up
> to date all along), I'd rather see this ticket from Cais:
> http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/16868 get into core.
>
> On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
> > Points of note:
> >
> > - Like plugins, themes older than 2 years don't show up in search
> > results (except for exact name matches).
> >
> > - Despite the "deprecation", nothing has ever been removed from the
> > WordPress core.
> >
> > -Otto
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Philip M. Hofer (Frumph)
> > <philip at frumph.net> wrote:
> >> I brought it up a year ago and it's about that time again.
> >>
> >> Notifying theme authors up to a certain revision requesting them to
> update
> >> their themes; also decaying / removing themes up to a certain point.
> >>
> >> One of the things that I am concerned about (and help  me with this) is
> the
> >> deprecated functions in the core.  How long do those deprecated
> functions
> >> stay in the deprecated file before being completely dropped, or do they
> stay
> >> - forever as deprecated?
> >>
> >> Anyways, back to mass notification - our earliest theme dates 2008-7-25
> >> right now.  That's almost 4 years.
> >>
> >> The roadmap:  http://wordpress.org/about/roadmap/   shows that that,
> that
> >> particular theme was released directly after 2.6 - as we know the theme
> >> coding standard has increased exponentially since then.
> >>
> >> I would be inclined to think that themes made previous to December 18,
> 2009
> >> (2.9) be contacted and request for theme update, removal or put on the
> >> "adoption" list.
> >>
> >> Last year someone mentioned that the theme's list can have extra coding
> >> installed to denote "out of date", "needs updating", "up for adoption",
> >> "featured", etc..  in the actual search results.   I do not know what
> came
> >> of that or if that is even something we can do.
> >>
> >> What are your thoughts, since I'm necro'ing this topic.
> >>
> >> Note: Necro'ing = bringing a topic back from the dead.
> >>
> >> - Phil
> >>
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