I was told that all new themes are being vetted. Just wondering if there is any information availble about this process and the status of my theme. I am currently waiting for something to happen, such as the project release be approved or removed.
http://drupal.org/project/fall
And the forum topic that I found this information at:
http://drupal.org/node/592278
thank you,
Dan Silver

Comments

avpaderno’s picture

It does not result that all projects are being vetted.

It's not then clear what you mean by approved or deleted; you have already created your project, and there are not issues open against it, in Drupal.org webmasters queue. We don't then delete projects, but we mark them as unpublished.

avpaderno’s picture

Your theme release does not appear because a CVS error.

ERROR: /usr/bin/cvs -q export -r HEAD contributions/themes/fall failed with status 1
cvs server: cannot find module `contributions/themes/fall' - ignored
cvs [export aborted]: cannot expand modules
silverhosting’s picture

thank you, I will look into the error.

avpaderno’s picture

Title: Is my theme going to be approved or deleted? » Project release doesn't appear

I am changing the title of the report.

avpaderno’s picture

@silverhosting: You are still getting the same error. I noticed that you are committing code under themes/Fall, but the short name of the theme is fall.

Correct me if I am wrong, but the name used is case-sensitive.

avpaderno’s picture

I changed the short project name to Fall, which matches the directory name used to commit the code.

silverhosting’s picture

thank you so much! I am leaving for a bit now, but I will look into this today when I get back.

silverhosting’s picture

just tried it again. It still didn't work.
Some more details:
I am using smart cvs to upload the theme.
What else did I do wrong?
Thank you for your help.

dave reid’s picture

Assigned: Unassigned » dave reid

Please CVS remove all your files from the /themes/Fall directory and re-start the process with the correct /themes/fall path. I'll be on this to help you if you need it.

silverhosting’s picture

thank you. I think this time I will be recording my screen as I go. So if I make any mistakes, I can go back and check what did wrong. I will upload it to my website, and put a link here.

vm’s picture

Kiam and Dave,

just a note from the forum thread linked that the themes being uploaded are artiseer prefabs.

The question at hand is ... How to deal with cookie cutter prefabs? Have we not removed projects in past solely because they were prefabs?

WorldFallz’s picture

Yes we have-- and this goes back to the groups.drupal.org discussion on theme policy. The sooner we decide and/or publish that policy the better.

Personally, however, I've been getting beaten up a great deal lately anytime I stand up for the integrity of drupal.org. Why toxic trolls who've contributed nothing should be allowed to derail an important and necessary policy discussion by webmasters is beyond me-- sorry, but I'm not really inclined to pick up this flag again.

I don' have particularly have a problem with 4 themes with a theme (summer, fall, winter, spring). But it does beg the question of where do we draw the line? That's why my original thought was no to artiseer altogether. Its just easier.

silverhosting’s picture

I am only going to work on fall, not autumn. I am trying to delete it autumn.

avpaderno’s picture

I agree that we should not accept Artiseer themes. It is not a question of how many themes a single maintainer would commit in CVS; we could have 10 people uploading 10 of such themes, 100 people uploading an Artiseer theme, or 1 person uploading 100 themes, but the effect would be the same (we would have 100 themes that are created by clicking on some buttons of a user interface).

I apologize for not having understood what kind of theme we were talking of.

avpaderno’s picture

Status: Active » Fixed

As this support request has already gotten an answer, I am marking the report as fixed.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

Project: Drupal.org site moderators » Drupal.org project ownership
Component: Project ownership » Ownership transfer