User Blagoj has developed 6 themes. After installing one today to check it out I noticed a link in the footer to newhostgatorcoupons.com. This led me to check out the other projects and all but one have this same link in them.

Mystique: issue = http://drupal.org/node/604440
A Blog Theme issue = http://drupal.org/node/604444
Monochrome issue = http://drupal.org/node/604446
Fusion Theme issue = http://drupal.org/node/604450
Pixel issue = http://drupal.org/node/604452

Magwood which is the first project released by this developer is the only theme available from this developer that does not include the newhostgatorcoupons.com link. I presume this is the project that gained the CVS account.

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Title: Theme in repo with spammy links in footer » Themes in repo with spammy links in footer
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please contact him and tell him that his themes will be unpublished if he doesn't remove these links.

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email sent via contact tab to user.

I checked out one of your themes today and was presented with a spammy link in the footer to newhostgatorcoupons.com. I checked into the remainder of your projects and found this link in 5 of the 6 themes you are distributing from drupal.org.

I've filed tasks in your issue queue for each project that contained this link.
I've also filed a webmasters issue here: http://drupal.org/node/604460

Please address this issue.

Thanks in advance for your cooperation

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If this is SOP we should probably add it to the discussion at http://groups.drupal.org/node/24465

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Meaning to contact the developer first? I'm all for giving a developer the opportunity to correct a shortcoming.

I agree that it should be part of the forthcoming policy and I am thinking a time frame should be in order. not less than 7 and not more than 21 days. Doing so would allow enough time for those on "holiday" or on "vacation"

A more stringent policy would be to unpublish the offending project nodes immediately following notification. When the issue is corrected they roll a new release and that project start the ball rolling again. Otherwise, there are still releases available with the offending issues.

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not less than 7 and not more than 21 days

Why don't we adopt 14 days as we already do in other occasions?

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whatever is best for the community.

Blago's last comment on this issue = http://drupal.org/node/604440#comment-2153282 dated 10-15

While releases are indeed removed from the project pages, they are still accessible in the repo.

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Let's see what the situation will be at the end of the month; if the themes still have the spam links, then we can mark as unpublished those themes.

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Status: Active » Postponed

As we are waiting for the 14 days to pass, I am marking this report as postponed.

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Status: Postponed » Fixed

no action and no follow up from the developer of the themes. I've unpublished all releases and project pages for the offending themes. The magwood theme was left published as this theme contains no spam links at this time.

Each theme in start of this thread where I began an issue on this was followed up on to inform developer of this action.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

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