[buddypress-trac] [BuddyPress] #4727: welcome screens need real copy

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#4727: welcome screens need real copy
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 Reporter:  ubernaut        |       Owner:
     Type:  task            |      Status:  reopened
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  1.8
Component:  Administration  |     Version:
 Severity:  normal          |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch       |
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Changes (by boonebgorges):

 * milestone:  1.7 => 1.8


Comment:

 > I can point to some themes where BuddyPress theme compat doesn't work
 absolutely per implied guarantee

 I appreciate your assiduous reading of the tagline, but if we were going
 to be exact, we would put disclaimers on every single sentence of the
 Welcome screen.

 As a policy going forward, if users find reproducible issues with BP's
 theme compat and specific themes, I'd be happy for them to open
 discussions either here on at bp.org support. In some cases, there may
 well be things that BP can/should do to work better with these themes. In
 other cases, it might be more appropriate for us to make suggestions of
 the theme author on fixing the compatibility issues.

 At the moment, though, I'm going to make the judgment call that there are
 no known incompatibilities that are so egregious as to make the Welcome
 text misleading or dishonest (and certainly no more inaccurate than some
 of the other very general statements on that screen). The fact that we've
 promised our translators that we're in string freeze makes the case for
 passing on the disclaimer even stronger.

 I'm going to move this ticket to the next milestone, so that we don't
 forget to take care of the URL update. For the time being, a good stopgap
 measure would be to put a brief statement at the top of
 http://codex.buddypress.org/theme-compatibility/ that points to the more
 comprehensive list of theme-related pages.

 Thanks for prompting this discussion, mercime.

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