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

[Srikanth Koneru]

sounds fair.


On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 2:05 AM, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me> wrote:

> 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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