I totally agree - let's update that table to have more information - including 
something about whether or not the author is supporting it.

Cheers,
Tim
--
Tim Ruppert
HotWax Media
http://www.hotwaxmedia.com

o:801.649.6594
f:801.649.6595

----- "Adrian Crum" <adri...@hlmksw.com> wrote:

> Thinking more about that...
> 
> The web page should include a way to contact the theme's author -
> should 
> a user have questions about it. Looking into the future, if we have a
> 
> number of people contributing themes, we could get swamped with theme
> 
> bug reports, requests for new features, etc. It would be nice to
> direct 
> that traffic to the author.
> 
> -Adrian
> 
> Adrian Crum wrote:
> > At the same time, we don't want to offend the author. If the author
> 
> > wants to remove it from the web page, then he/she is free to do so.
> > 
> > -Adrian
> > 
> > Jacques Le Roux wrote:
> >> I think we should not bother to have it in the Visual Themes
> gallery 
> >> and simply drop and forget it. BizznessTime replaced it and is 
> >> apparently the same. Thus we will not end up with an user not aware
> 
> >> willing to use it as fundation.
> >>
> >> Jacques
> >>
> >> From: "Tim Ruppert" <tim.rupp...@hotwaxmedia.com>
> >>> Apparently I can commit there :) This has been removed and is
> posted 
> >>> on the page.  Thanks to everyone for helping out figure our 
> >>> deprecation path here.
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>> Tim
> >>> -- 
> >>> Tim Ruppert
> >>> HotWax Media
> >>> http://www.hotwaxmedia.com
> >>>
> >>> o:801.649.6594
> >>> f:801.649.6595
> >>>
> >>> ----- "Tim Ruppert" <tim.rupp...@hotwaxmedia.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Smooth Feather has been posted to the Visual Themes page and can
> now
> >>>> be removed by anyone who has rights.  I'm not sure where I ever
> >>>> rememthemes is classified, but I'll give it a whirl and will
> report
> >>>> back.
> >>>>
> >>>> Cheers,
> >>>> Tim
> >>>> -- 
> >>>> Tim Ruppert
> >>>> HotWax Media
> >>>> http://www.hotwaxmedia.com
> >>>>
> >>>> o:801.649.6594
> >>>> f:801.649.6595
> >>>>
> >>>> ----- "Tim Ruppert" <tim.rupp...@hotwaxmedia.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> > Yeah, I can get behind that for sure.  Btw, Jacques, I think
> we
> >>>> keep
> >>>> > the Flat Grey forever - no reason to deprecate that one - just
> the
> >>>> > ones that aren't going to be maintained - of which the
> original
> >>>> Smooth
> >>>> > Feather now stands out.
> >>>> >
> >>>> > Anyways, if everyone's cool with that - then we can make a page
> in
> >>>> > Confluence and keep everything there - starting with moving
> Smooth
> >>>> > Feather there.
> >>>> >
> >>>> > Cheers,
> >>>> > Tim
> >>>> > --
> >>>> > Tim Ruppert
> >>>> > HotWax Media
> >>>> > http://www.hotwaxmedia.com
> >>>> >
> >>>> > o:801.649.6594
> >>>> > f:801.649.6595
> >>>> >
> >>>> > ----- "Adrian Crum" <adri...@hlmksw.com> wrote:
> >>>> >
> >>>> > > I like the idea of moving deprecated themes to a web page.
> >>>> > >
> >>>> > > -Adrian
> >>>> > >
> >>>> > > Jacques Le Roux wrote:
> >>>> > > > For several reason, I really appreciate sometimes to have
> the
> >>>> > good
> >>>> > > old
> >>>> > > > theme (Flat Grey) at hand.
> >>>> > > > We could keep Flat Grey and the best known at the moment
> >>>> > (obviously
> >>>> > >
> >>>> > > > BiznessTime at the moment).
> >>>> > > > The others would stay at http://docs.ofbiz.org/x/yhQ
> >>>> > > > This would be an easy deprecation policy
> >>>> > > >
> >>>> > > > Jacques
> >>>> > > >
> >>>> > > > From: "Adrian Crum" <adri...@hlmksw.com>
> >>>> > > >> There were differing opinions about them. I suggested
> having
> >>>> > only
> >>>> > > one
> >>>> > > >> theme in OFBiz, and the other themes could be provided
> outside
> >>>> > the
> >>>> > >
> >>>> > > >> project - by theme providers.
> >>>> > > >>
> >>>> > > >> David thought it would be good to have several themes in
> the
> >>>> > > project
> >>>> > > >> in order to demonstrate the theme idea.
> >>>> > > >>
> >>>> > > >> From my perspective, having more than one theme in the
> project
> >>>> > > means
> >>>> > > >> that much more code that has to be maintained.
> >>>> > > >>
> >>>> > > >> As far as I know, no "theme deprecation" plan has been
> >>>> > discussed.
> >>>> > > >>
> >>>> > > >> -Adrian
> >>>> > > >>
> >>>> > > >>
> >>>> > > >> Tim Ruppert wrote:
> >>>> > > >>> I may have missed this in general, but what is the plan
> to
> >>>> > > deprecate
> >>>> > > >>> themes when people aren't supporting them any longer? 
> We've
> >>>> > > already
> >>>> > > >>> got one that we want to do this to - and there will
> surely be
> >>>> > > others
> >>>> > > >>> as we're trying to work out these backend interfaces.
> >>>> Anyways,
> >>>> > my
> >>>> > >
> >>>> > > >>> vote would be community votes and just removing them -
> but
> >>>> I'd
> >>>> > > love
> >>>> > > >>> to hear what the original intention was and other good
> ideas
> >>>> > out
> >>>> > > there.
> >>>> > > >>>
> >>>> > > >>> Cheers,
> >>>> > > >>> Tim
> >>>> > > >>> -- > > >>> Tim Ruppert
> >>>> > > >>> HotWax Media
> >>>> > > >>> http://www.hotwaxmedia.com
> >>>> > > >>>
> >>>> > > >>> o:801.649.6594
> >>>> > > >>> f:801.649.6595
> >>>> > > >>>
> >>>> > > >>
> >>>> > > >
> >>>> > > >
> >>>> > > >
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >

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