No icon = no promulgation?

[José Antonio Rey]

Hello,

As I am subscribed to all bugs in Juju (as some of you may also be),
today I got an email from a CakePHP charm review. On this one, a charmer
had to reject the submission because, when promulgating, the tool runs
`charm proof` to make sure things are not broken, not promulgating if
any Error or Warning pops up. And there was a problem: this charm did
not have an icon (which throws a Warning in `charm proof`, making it
impossible to promulgate it.

I totally understand what has been done. Now, a charm cannot be
promulgated when there are Errors or Warnings. But since not having an
icon is a Warning, it will not allow a charmer to promulgate any charms
which do not contain an icon, may it be because the author is asking for
official permission (like in this case), because the service has no
icon, or any other reasons. In some of the cases, it may be a
fully-working charm, with no other issues apart from not having an icon.
We even have lots of charms with no icon in the store. And about
proposing a temporary icon, when I proposed an icon which was just an
orange background with the service name, it got rejected. So, I don't
know what may be an idea for a 'temporary' or 'provisional' icon.

I believe having an icon is not that of a priority, and that we should
focus in having charms that provide working services. Still, we should
try to ensure and promote the idea of charms having icons, but I do not
see it as a fatal error like to prevent promulgation.

In this case, I would be for demoting the level of the warning issued by
`charm proof` from Warning to Information. This, as it is not something
critical, and charms/services will still work, even with no icon. It
doesn't affect functionality, but it only removes the pretty part (that
can be added later) of the GUI. By doing this, we will throw something
when `charm proof` is ran, but still allow promulgation if there is no icon.

What do you guys think about it?

-- 
José Antonio Rey