[theme-reviewers] Question about removing default widgets

[Justin Tadlock]

It seemed pretty definitive to me since several us agreed on what was 
allowed and wrote up a new guideline.  I thought we had already added it 
to the rest of the Theme Review Guidelines.  Otherwise, I would've made 
a note that we forgot to add it.

On 2/28/2013 7:06 PM, Emil Uzelac wrote:
> Not really sure if this was decided or not, but we talked about this 
> for sure.
> Please see: 
> http://lists.wordpress.org/pipermail/theme-reviewers/2012-June/009455.html
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 6:26 PM, Justin Tadlock 
> <justin at justintadlock.com <mailto:justin at justintadlock.com>> wrote:
>
>     It is OK.  This was decided by the theme review team last year:
>     http://lists.wordpress.org/pipermail/theme-reviewers/2012-June/009450.html
>
>
>
>     On 2/28/2013 6:18 PM, Paul Appleyard wrote:
>
>         I thought it was OK to extend core functionality - as long as
>         it RETAINED the original functionality; ie didn't break when
>         they switched themes. So, replacing a widget with a custom one
>         of the same name that had the original functionality but with
>         some added powers.
>
>         Paul
>
>         On 1/03/2013 9:34 AM, Otto wrote:
>
>             On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Justin Tadlock
>             <justin at justintadlock.com
>             <mailto:justin at justintadlock.com>> wrote:
>
>                 I disagree.  If we don't want developers ...
>
>             There is more than one type of developer.
>
>             Removing widgets makes perfect sense to be available for
>             plugins
>             territory. Doesn't make sense for themes. Yet another form of
>             vendor-lock-in.
>
>             -Otto
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