[theme-reviewers] Abandoned/Changed Theme Name, Requesting Transfer

[Emil Uzelac]

I think that we should have a way of freeing the names after certain period
of time and under special circumstances.
On Apr 18, 2014 3:33 PM, "Chip Bennett" <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:

> I think it's worth discussion.
>
> The Theme was originally submitted as "Journal", and then re-submitted,
> and approved, as "Journalism":
> https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/16635
>
> Thus, the name "Journal" is now abandoned, and unavailable for use.
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me> wrote:
>
>> Note that I am 99.9% sure that you won't be able to "free" the name
>> unless you have consent from other author.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Scott Sousa <scott at slocumstudio.com>wrote:
>>
>>>  Emil,
>>>
>>> I'm going to send an e-mail to Otto now.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Scott
>>>
>>>
>>> On 4/18/2014 4:23 PM, Emil Uzelac wrote:
>>>
>>> Email Otto please ☺
>>> On Apr 18, 2014 3:18 PM, "Scott Sousa" <scott at slocumstudio.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Theme Reviewers,
>>>>
>>>> This message is for Otto. Regarding this tweet sent by Chip,
>>>> https://twitter.com/chip_bennett/status/457238636270845952, we'd like
>>>> to see if we can have the theme name "Journal" transferred to our Slocum
>>>> Themes/Slocum Studio (@slocumstudio) account.
>>>>
>>>> Here's a bit of back-story:
>>>>
>>>> We have a new theme that we'd like to submit named "Journal". After
>>>> submitting, the theme-bot let us know that there was already a theme with
>>>> that name. After doing a bit of research, we came across this ticket,
>>>> https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/15796#comment:6, which
>>>> appears to have been abandoned and the theme name has since changed. Here's
>>>> a link to the theme as it currently sits on GitHub:
>>>> https://github.com/bestwebsoft/journalism-wordpress-theme.
>>>>
>>>> Is it possible to transfer the "Journal" theme name to our account? Our
>>>> trac/WordPress.org username is "slocumstudio" (
>>>> http://profiles.wordpress.org/slocumstudio/). Please let us know if
>>>> any other information is required.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for your time,
>>>> Scott
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