[theme-reviewers] BuddyPress theme rejected?

[Justin Tadlock]

A GitHub page is perfect for a theme URI.  I won't bother re-listing all 
the reasons why.

On 9/10/2012 9:33 AM, Philip M. Hofer (Frumph) wrote:
> "while I am not openly disagree'ing with Otto" is more appropriate.
>
> I'm all for github being a valid theme uri
>
>
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> -----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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