The Google policy of not providing feedback to a theme developer
regarding the progress of their theme submission can be very
frustrating.

Unpredictable lead times often leave the developer in limbo, wondering
whether the reason for their theme's non-appearance in the theme
directory is due to
   • long lead time
   • policy-based rejection
   • code-based rejection
   • fallen through the cracks

While I understand it's not practical to provide a mechanism to allow
tracking of every theme submission, it would greatly assist if
developers could at least be notified of rejections, so they know
   • they can stop waiting for the theme to appear
   • they can rectify the problem and re-submit

Just letting a developer wait interminably seems not to be a very user-
friendly way to go! I got into the habit of re-submitting any of my
slow-to-appear themes after a couple of weeks. I still don't know
whether the repeated re-submission helped, but all themes except my
latest eventually appeared in the theme directory.

My latest theme submission (successful according to the submission
messages) was a couple of weeks ago. It would be good to know whether
it has been rejected and might need modification before I re-submit
it:
http://users.on.net/~dvcox/gadgets/ozscapes01.xml

Although, with the test URL broken I can't check any modifications I
might make, so the exercise is a bit pointless at the moment!

Dave

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