How long does it take for Drupal.org to process a project release?

You can share your theme in many places including your own site where you can amass a huge collection of these themes and simply give them away - no one is preventing you from doing so.

You have already created two project pages - Fall and Autumn, so one assumes you are about to add Summer and Winter also? Four cookie themes that any user with Artiseer could replicate tomorrow and add to the repo again, complete with links to their hosting service and "web development" services.

Themes are looking like d.o's new spam, and these cookie cutter themes are just too easy to generate, upload and spam d.o with. That is the problem. If we let one in where do we draw the line. I personally am not against artiseer per se, what I and many others are concerned about is giving Drupal users the best selection of themes, that are not just cookie cutter back-link laden Trojan horses - I'm not saying yours are, but be sure that this is exactly what will happen if we let these themes in. Not everyones intent is altruistic.

Please don't diss out community decisions, this is a serious issue that is being debated - get involved with the debate, contribute, evolve. Learn how to theme, port your artiseer design to be a Genesis subtheme adn contribute that (at least that shows you at least know the rudiments of theming and could support your CSS).

There is a big difference between a 'designer's method' and using a 'factory' like artiseer. All anyone needs to recreate an artiseer theme is a click recipe-- they don't need you, your particular skills, or any other designer. Just 'click here and click there". Sorry, but there's no reason to host such a theme on drupal.org. And as jb says-- there's nothing preventing you from giving back to the community by setting up your own repository and posting all the artiseer themes you want.

Let's at least be honest here-- we all know the google juice drupal.org has. Don't be disingenuous by suggesting you're merely doing it to 'give back'. Going by your sig, as well as both your usernames, posting themes or modules to drupal.org amounts to significant sef free advertising for your businesses. Which is also fine. But you should have to do more then click a couple of buttons in a ui for it.

EDIT: I would also like to add the I actually like and use artiseer-- I'm completely graphically challenged and it saves me a great deal of time creating a theme (though I don't consider the drupal theme usable without some help, the graphics and layout are a life saver). However, I would never think of submitting one of those themes to drupal.org. Besides the reasons I describe above, artiseer themes are extremely obvious, and I wouldn't want to use it to showcase myself on drupal.org.