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

[Chip Bennett]

I think the question of *prudent* Theme name choices is a valid discussion,
but a completely separate one. We've gone down that road before, and
personally, I don't want to get into the highly subjective (and
controversial) issue of trying to be gatekeepers for Theme Names, aside
from the basics we've got established currently.

The more important (and interesting) underlying question here is: what to
do with abandoned (or changed) Theme names? Do we want to have some way to
release abandoned Theme names (that is: names for Themes that are in SVN,
but never got approved to be listed in the directory)? Or do we want to
say: once claimed, it's gone; just pick a different name?


On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Srikanth Koneru <tskk79 at gmail.com> wrote:

> "Journal", "Magazine" they have tremendous value too, top in serp's value
> :)
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 2:08 AM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
>
>> There are least two other themes not on WordPress.org named "Journal" as
>> well:
>>
>>
>> http://themeforest.net/item/journal-elegant-responsive-wordpress-blog-theme/6629402
>>
>> http://themeforest.net/item/journal-responsive-readable-wordpress-blog-theme/3921914
>>
>> So, I'm not exactly saying no, but I am strongly suggesting that you
>> might want to rethink your naming choice here. Having a unique name is a
>> fairly important thing. Additionally, I hesitate to give a theme a name
>> that commonplace, and would not want other people using a theme with that
>> name to suddenly see an "update" for a theme that isn't the one they're
>> currently running.
>>
>> Names matter. Pick a good one.
>>
>> -Otto
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 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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