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

[Srikanth Koneru]

Otto, sent you a request of mine too, sent it a few months earlier too.
Please give that theme to me :)


On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 2:15 AM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:

> 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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