What is meant by 'store' here?
I have just started to sell themes, so I wonder if there will be a way to do that.
When it comes to free themes for Plone 5, there are not really that many
@aswinshenoy, sorry about the last few days.... I was unavailable due to work.
Agreed. The idea generally surrounds making the Theme Editor comfortable and intuitive to code in. Most of what the AceIDE offers in Wordpress, those should be included in the Plone Theme Editor. A number of those features are already implemented.
These are good. Alright, we can plan for what we need to do to pull off the Theme Store; however, I still recommend to have it as a bonus deliverable.
Similar to Theme Forest or Wordprress store, it's an online directory of downloadable free Plone themes, maybe in the near future support paid themes. However, regarding to the number of free theme for Plone 5, there are a lot that are unaccounted for. I know most themes are customer based themes, while others are generic based on the market. I for instance have several themes that I reuse on various projects.I tend to do a lot of fancy Diazo work that is reusable in any project. For instance, auto-collapsing breadcrumbs diazo rule.
I think that the Theme Store will encourage more themes to be created and if there's a space to sell themes, then it will encourage designers and theme editors to create more themes.
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@aswinshenoy, I think I failed to point out that Plone has it's versioning and history log for files, content and resources, see History and versioning However, it is not enabled for theme files.
The reason why Git versioning should be implement is due to the fact that we want to combat scenarios where a change is made TTW on Plone and the theme is hosted on Gitlab/Github; the theme would have to be downloaded, unziped and pushed to the remote repo. Also, someone or a CI/CD mechanism can easily override the entire theme, which will result in code lost.
It would be great if it was possible to sell themes (somewhere). It is quite difficult to sell them 'online' and it seems like a google add costs 10€ a click… not really possible to do when a theme cost 250. Could it be possible to link to URLs of 'Premium themes' instead of 'selling them 'in the store' ? Or what do you want from 'theme editors and designers'? I am putting together a demo of some of my themes at http://themes.medialog.no … could it be possible to 'link that' ?
Yep, these requirements sound possible but the payment aspect should not be in the GSoC project. However, it can be marked as a theme for sale with a link to preview the theme. When the store is matured, then we can do in-store purchase of themes.
@aswinshenoy I wouldn't link it to github only. I had a proposal a long time back where a site plone itself became a simple repository for another plone site to browse to pick and download a theme for. This allowed for quick internal distribution of software within an intranet for example. Using github as another respository "source" would also be helpful. The model I'm thinking is similar to kodi where you add a list of repository sources to your configuration and then you can search and browse them to download new themes.
It would be helpful to extend the theme editor with the idea of versions however as it would be hard to manage as versioning in the current theme editor means renaming using any number of naming schemes.
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Yes, I totally agree, I didn't meant github/gitlab specifically, but any external git repository.
I thought of a hosted theme store concept something like WordPress, but "sources" concept seems interesting, and that can help us implement it with less maintenance. But I think we will have to define and implement some standards, so that we can fetch details of the theme and provide a very much WP like browsing interface (with filtering and searching).
The idea of versioning is pretty complex, and I am still figuring ways out. I wished to implement somewhat advanced versioning like git, with each file actions forming a commit, and one can use revert to go back. Not sure of the implementation part yet, though.
Yes, WP also shows a section "Commercial Themes", and we could redirect them to the publisher's web-page.
I don't think managing payments should be our cup of tea since we are primarily an Open Source Org and should focusing on developing Plone. Maybe once our free theme store and the support for uploading themes become stable, and popular, sites like ThemeForest would enable support for Plone Themes for helping our publishers.
Hi @aswinshenoy, the final submission is less than 5 hours away. Please do your final submission as soon as possible.
Yes. I have submitted the final proposal making few changes, hoping for the best 
It was great learning experience starting so late, thank you so much for helping.
Hi @aswinshenoy,
I'm really sorry to say we didn't make it this year. Plone was given only three slots for GSoC as a sub-org, and our project didn't make a list.
I hope this hasn't deterred you from GSoC and Plone. You're very talented and would have made a great impact. In fact, despite the result, I would still like for us to work on the Theme Editor. Are you interested in doing so?
Hey,
I totally understand, in fact, my proposal didn't stand a fair chance, as I was very late. However, as mentioned earlier, I had also applied for GSoC with Salesforce, which I was thankfully selected. So, unfortunately, I am a bit committed to it now 
I would have loved to work on it, but this being a pretty big project, I don't think I will find time during the GSoC period now.
Np... I'm glad that you got in for the other project. All the best, keep me posted on the Salesforce project. I am interested in seeing how it turns out.