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

[Emil Uzelac]

Theme Name is reserved as soon as the Theme is uploaded and accepted by the
system :)
Therefore after that "Example Name" will become unavailable.


On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Scott Sousa <scott at slocumstudio.com> wrote:

>  Chip,
>
> Thanks for steering the topic back on track. A potential issue with
> keeping abandoned theme names with the original author would be: does that
> open the table up for squatting? That is to say if the original author
> always gets to keep the theme name, what's to stop someone from submitting
> a theme with that name to reserve it? In this case, Journal was not
> approved, yet the name still remains with the original author. Just a
> thought.
>
> Scott
>
>
> On 4/18/2014 4:45 PM, Chip Bennett 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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