In reply to Carolina Nymark.

A file upload option into a proper theme database rather than uploading a zip for it to be attached and reviewed within Trac.

Use git instead, or some other variation to allow updating only single files where needed.

The current process takes too long and could t for the most part be automated. In fact one thing that is automated is checking certain classes exist within the style.css file which is ridiculous as it doesn’t fix an actual problem.

I’ve submitted one theme (Nude) and even that’s that was an edge case, the whole experience has completely turned me off wanting to submit another. It takes too long, is too complicated and the directory pages don’t focus on show casing the actual theme working to it’s potential.

That’s why the quality of themes is so low to be perfectly honest. A complete overhaul of themes (and plugins) is needed but .Org has never pushed real change.