[theme-reviewers] Questions on my first review

[Peter Kakoma]

It reads like it was written by a lawyer :-)

Thanks Chip. That puts it  to rest for me. The bit about guidelines being a
moving target is also on point.

Cheers


On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:

> This is the defining principle in the Guidelines:
>
>
>    - Presentation Vs. Functionality<http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review#Presentation_vs_Functionality>
>    :
>       - Since the purpose of Themes is to define the presentation of user
>       content, Themes must not be used to define the generation of user content,
>       or to define Theme-independent site options or functionality.
>
> It's somewhat difficult to try to list every possible issue in the
> Guidelines, nor do we want to.
>
> I would also like to reiterate: the intention has always been for
> continual improvement of the Guidelines, and continually raising the
> quality standard. Thus, there may be Themes in the directory that passed
> previous iterations of the Guidelines, but that would not pass the current
> iteration. Also, because reviews are performed by actual humans, who can
> interpret Guidelines differently, the review standard probably will never
> be 100% consistent. So, the "but there are other Themes in the directory
> that do X" is never a valid argument. The Guidelines may have changed; we
> reviewers may simply have screwed up and allowed something that was against
> the guidelines. Whatever the case: current Themes under review are expected
> to conform to the current Guidelines.
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Peter Kakoma <kakomap at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The issue is that there is no definitive guideline about
>> {plugin-territory-stuff}. I believe the end-goal of this discussion is to
>> draft one and share it with the rest of the world (otherwise we'll be
>> discussing this again two months from now when a first-time reviewer asks
>> the same question)
>>
>> And in as much as my theme is guilty of adding Analytics, I agree with
>> you-the line should be drawn at non-presentational stuff (*cough* SEO,
>> *cough*). Removing Analytics now, updating the theme.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>wrote:
>>
>>> I don't agree that the Favicon guidelines are appropriate for extending
>>> to all {plugin territory} functionality.
>>>
>>> Things that are marginally presentational (e.g. sharing links)? Using
>>> the Favicon guidelines as a model is reasonable. But Google Analytics: no
>>> reason to facilitate Themes adding this functionality. It's not in any way
>>> whatsoever presentational. As far as I'm concerned, that's an absolute line
>>> of demarcation. If it's not in any way presentational, it doesn't belong in
>>> a Theme, opt-in/disabled-by-default or otherwise.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 8:37 AM, Edward Caissie <
>>> edward.caissie at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 2:46 AM, Peter Kakoma <kakomap at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Themes are recommended not to implement custom
>>>>> {plugin-territory-stuff} functionality.
>>>>> If implemented, {plugin-territory-stuff} functionality is required to
>>>>> be opt-in, and disabled by default.
>>>>> If implemented, {plugin-territory-stuff} functionality is required to
>>>>> support user-defined {plugin-territory-stuff} images
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Those points are fairly well sorted except for the third which is
>>>> really more relevant to the original ideas behind the use of favicons, but
>>>> if you use the first two points as your benchmark then you should be (for
>>>> the most part but not 100% guaranteed) fine with going forward.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Edward Caissie
>>>> aka Cais.
>>>>
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