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
>>>> > > >>>
>>>> > > >>
>>>> > > >
>>>> > > >
>>>> > > >
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
