A meeting was held with the proposed agenda.
The following is the recap of the meeting, you can read the meeting transcript in the slack archives (a Slack account is required).
Updates
In the past seven days:
- 352 tickets were opened
- 354 tickets were closed:
- 333 tickets were made live
- 5 new Themes were made live
- 328 Theme updates were made live
- 3 more were approved but are waiting to be made live
- 21 tickets were not-approved
- 0 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded
- 333 tickets were made live
Suspended themes submission
It was agreed that if the authors’ theme was suspended you cannot submit it again with a different name and account.
Theme Review Team Badge Assignment
We got the access to the badges so we are calling people to comment if they did the review so that we may give them the badges 🙂
They need to reply to the pinned slack message, and we’ll look at the reviews and decide: if someone did a poor, incomplete review, that we had to reopen for very basic issues, then no badges will be rewarded.
We need to check the review quality and dedication. A complete review is necessary in order to get the badge.
Get Ready for WordPress 5.3
Theme authors should get ready for the upcoming WP 5.3. You can read more in the make post.
If there will be any problems we encourage theme authors to contact us on slack.
Open floor
The ticket for the core to read the PHP version for themes was opened (and closed shortly after). The core themes were updated to move required fields to style.css instead of readme.txt.
The fields the theme authors should have in the style.css are
Requires PHP and Requires at least.
Core won’t be affected if those fields are in the style.css but your theme will benefit from having them, so we recommend authors adding them.
@aristath recommended using the code from Justin Tadlock’s theme for handling graceful failures: https://github.com/justintadlock/mythic/blob/master/functions.php
The Theme Sniffer is undergoing some updates and the release will be out soon. One of the changes will be the above validation – readme.txt will no longer be checked, only style.css will be checked.