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Items discussed:
- Reducing rules to “essential”: There was intense discussion regarding the change in guidelines. Proposal was to reduce list to 3 essential points: licensing; security and egregious issues. Even though several attendees gave input regarding the agenda, no decision has been made.
- For:
- This would reduce queue time drastically.
- This would move some burden from reviewer to theme author.
- If theme does something wrong, author will be affected by user’s rating, so author would be more careful.
- At we can run an experiment, for say 1 months and see how it goes
- Against:
- This would let pass themes with some currently critical issues like content creation, prefixing, translation ready, etc.
- It is hard to trust theme authors as we have seen several examples with breaking of trust.
- If theme passes with issues and later asked to be fixed by reviewer then user will suffer.
- Even if we run this experiment for some period, we should first set some target and parameters to check after the experiment to decide whether continue or revert this change.