Sanduhrs wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 12. Juli 2006 09:55 schrieb Álvaro Ortiz:
Would be interesting to organize a public design contest for the new Drupal default theme? There would be a deadline for coming up with proposals, and those would be voted by the Drupal community.
I like the idea of having a public contest and am shure there are some good designers interested in it. This could also enrich the theme garden, as other good designs could be implemented too, as contrib themes.
There is indeed a theme competition being discussed on groups (http://groups.drupal.org/theme-competition-administration) but there is no way that this will give us a stable theme by 4.8. Dries has said a new theme can make it to 4.8, but this means the solution needs to be SUPER-quick because a code freeze hits on September 1.
Hence I'm jumping on contrib as being the source.
I have had another thought about short-listing the themes. I will ask an admin to tell me which themes are the most downloaded. Put the list up for scrutiny (ie. kick out the really badly coded ones, if any).