[theme-reviewers] Formal Request for Change of Methodology.

[Philip M. Hofer (Frumph)]

1) Remove all requirements and recommendations, change it all to 'best 
practices', do not remove anything in the codex just yet.

2) Theme review process.
* Theme reviewers tag a theme for review. / It already passed the upload 
checker
* Check theme with the other plugin(s)[1] available for development, check 
it for notices, warnings, fatals and deprecation messages, Pass/Fail
* Check theme with theme unit test.  Pass/Fail
* Review the tags, website links, theme name.  Pass/Fail

It's done, it's reviewed, it's over, if it passed all of those, flag it as 
passing review and live.

3) Anything else missing on the above list that is a MUST should be added to 
the list but only if it's a MUST, and can't go live no exception.

[1] Make the plugins work for the theme review team; add common security 
problems, etc.

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This is it, this is all that is needed.     Everything else is icing on the 
cake for best practices.


Themes are the 'meat and potatoes' of WordPress, the idea that a theme must 
adhere and be cross compatible with other themes in features is a nuance 
that is unnecessary to worry about.   Plugins are made to enhance themes; 
if a plugin doesn't work with a theme the community WILL contact the author; 
they always do.   As long as the theme is up to date with core coding which 
all of the tools at our disposal make you aware of - of which even the 
messages from core will also state things it is unnecessary to do anything 
otherwise.

// not sure about
Not sure what Nacin wrote in entirety on the Make site, but having the 
themes that are live and pass the upload process and immediately go live 
again would be a boon; that basically makes it like the theme developer has 
svn access, without having svn access.