Hi Phil, Resubmitting will most likely go through the entire approval process again.
On the other hand, when a gadget moves to a new address, we have the option of creating an alias for it. This means users who have the old gadget will see the new gadget instead. We've had some success doing this with themes as well. Once your theme is approved, if you move it to different hosting you can try submitting a gadget alias request form at https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/google.com/viewform?formkey=cEhGZVVmVUNQVmI1N2lvOW5nOGJNUFE6MA. Put in bogus values for the "secret" fields (since they don't apply to a theme) and I can verify it manually. I'm not sure it'd end up being faster than a second review process, but it could be. Rob Russell Google Developer Relations On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 5:47 AM, Philip Dahl <[email protected]> wrote: > Dave you and I seem to be constantly in the same boat here. > > I've been waiting for at least three weeks on my submission to google > for my theme. I don't know if this is the right place to do this but > I'm dying to get my theme approved to let up the amount of bandwidth > I'm using on my servers since I am hosting my theme. A lot of my > friends seem to be using it. > http://www.google.com/ig?skin=http://philipdahl.com/deepseawhale.xml > . > > Dave, A fast turn around would be great. It would appear that themes > submitted through the google site that builds your theme for you are > quick to appear in the directory. I'm sure Google is working on this > issue. > > Also, I had the same theme hosted on googlecode that I sent in however > updating on googlecode is sort of hard (since I don't know mercurial > yet). If it's the same theme with a different url is that going to be > an issue if I submitted both? I want to be able to update my themes so > I'm using my server to host my theme because I find that it's easier > to update. > > Any help by Google would be appreciated . > > -Phil > On May 6, 5:02 am, BlueQuoll <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks, Rob :o) > > > > On May 6, 9:36 am, Rob Russell <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi Dave, > > > I know it looks very mysterious but we are looking at ways to improve > the > > > process and improve the experience for themers. There are several very > > > different factors that we have to look at still though. Soon as I have > more > > > details... > > > > > Rob Russell > > > Google Developer Relations > > > > > On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 3:13 PM, BlueQuoll <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I re-submitted the theme yesterday with no changes and it's in the > > > >directorytoday! > > > > > > 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 > > > > > ifthemescould 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 > > > > > >directoryis 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-appearthemesafter a couple of weeks. I still don't know > > > > > > whether the repeated re-submission helped, but allthemesexcept my > > > > > > latest eventually appeared in the themedirectory. > > > > > > > > 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<http://users.on.net/%7Edvcox/gadgets/ozscapes01.xml> > <http://users.on.net/%7Edvcox/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]<google-gadgets-api%[email protected]> > <google-gadgets-api%[email protected]<google-gadgets-api%[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]<google-gadgets-api%[email protected]> > <google-gadgets-api%[email protected]<google-gadgets-api%[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]<google-gadgets-api%[email protected]> > <google-gadgets-api%[email protected]<google-gadgets-api%[email protected]> > > > > > > . > > > > For more options, visit this group at > > > >http://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]<google-gadgets-api%[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]<google-gadgets-api%[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]<google-gadgets-api%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://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. 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