I agree it would be good to know progress. It would be useful perhaps
if themes could be added to the iGoogle Dashboard and monitored in a
similar way as gadgets.

On Apr 30, 2:38 am, BlueQuoll <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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