[themes] WP theme directory

[Bèr Kessels]

Op maandag 19 juni 2006 22:07, schreef Nick Lewis:
> Features like comments, and voting are nice. However, there's an
> inherent difficulty in converting a theme switching module into a node.
> Really, I think that voting and comments could wait. What's REALLY
> important is creating a better interface for people to browse through
> themes.

we had that for about half a year. A complete failure. 

 * Developers have already a hard time to keep the drupal.org project nodes up 
to date. Let alone if they have to work on TWO. Not an option.
 * Metadata for these nodes was hard to come by. Who developed it? What is the 
theme about? Is it pure CSS, or table design. We had all that, in flexinode. 
But it was always OFF. 
 * Making a wiki did not help either. 9 of 10 entries were bogus. kiddies 
entering some pron-pics in the "screenshot" gallery, people 
submitting "asdfasdf" content and so on. We only allowed Registered ppl to do 
this, still it was a mess.
 * Comments had the same problem: They attracted the same kind of "asdfasdf" 
folks. Here too, we only allowed registered ppl to comment. 

IMO it is not about providing more data on themes.drupal.org, but about making 
project.module on drupal.org better.

themes.drupal.org, should, IMO ONLY be a display of the themes. let drupal.org 
project module handle the browsing!

I am open for suggestions, but even more so for patches to themeswitcher. 

Also note that we cannot upgrade to 4.7 untill we find a way in themeswitcher 
to NOT have per-theme-blocks. If we would upgrade now, we have to hand-edit 
the block settings for EACH new theme. Not an option.

Bèr