I re-submitted the theme yesterday with no changes and it's in the directory today!
Now was that the first submission finally being approved, or the second submission approved in record time? I'll never know. Dave On Apr 30, 10:25 pm, nicky <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "iGoogle Developer Forum" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/Google-Gadgets-API?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "iGoogle Developer Forum" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/Google-Gadgets-API?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iGoogle Developer Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Gadgets-API?hl=en.
