[theme-reviewers] BuddyPress theme rejected?

[Philip M. Hofer (Frumph)]

"while I am not openly disagree'ing with Otto" is more appropriate.

I'm all for github being a valid theme uri



-----Original Message----- 
From: Doug Stewart
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2012 6:48 AM
To: theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] BuddyPress theme rejected?

Frumph:
github and bitbucket will automatically parse any READMEs in the root
of a repo and paste them to the front page as the intro, so that's an
easy way for devs to avoid having to write the same documentation yet
again.

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Philip M. Hofer (Frumph)
<philip at frumph.net> wrote:
> while I am not openly disagree'ing I'm going to toss some points out.
>
> A github link to the theme project has several interesting facets to look 
> at
> as being a valid link to the theme's URI
>
> It has a 'forum area' in the forum of an "issues" section.
>
> It has a download section to download the latest zip (ya know since it'
> takes forever to get through review processes (gentle /rib out of fun))
>
> When I first read this thread about this I thought that this would be the
> perfect theme URI specific for a theme project.
>
> The only thing it's really lacking is an updated README something more 
> then
> 'status' blah blah (equiv. home page information/about information)
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Otto
> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2012 3:50 AM
> To: theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
> Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] BuddyPress theme rejected?
>
>
> Umm... I kinda actually agree with him. A github link isn't
> appropriate for a theme URL. IMO, of course.
>
> -Otto
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 5:48 AM, Emil Uzelac <emil at themeid.com> wrote:
>>
>> commented, please check the ticket :)
>>
>> Emil
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 5:37 AM, Japheth Thomson <japh at envato.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Hey everyone,
>>>
>>> I assume someone else is already taking a look at this, but just in 
>>> case,
>>> please check out this ticket:
>>> http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/9057
>>>
>>> I'm not convinced this should've been a rejection.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Japh
>>>
>>> --
>>> Japh Thomson
>>> WordPress Evangelist
>>> japh at envato.com
>>> http://envato.com
>>> http://twitter.com/envato
>>>
>>>
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