[theme-reviewers] New ticket

[Dre Armeda]

Chip, I think another area we may want to look at is how the reviews are 
published to the theme submitter. What about standardizing the 
information published in the review, and using a single template that 
contains all of the relevant review points?

As an example:

    * Intro statement (exp. Thanks for contributing. The theme is
      awesome but there are areas you need to clean up)
    * Theme Check Info
          o Required Items
          o Recommended Items
          o Info Items
    * Debogger Items
    * Deprecated Calls Info
    * Test Data Info
    * Test Environment Info
    * Quick Observations
    * Recommendations
    * Closing Statement


Let me know if I missed anything. The objective is to manage 
expectations. Standardizing gives a uniform feel upon delivery of the 
review information to the submitter, and also gives reviewers a common 
approach which may improve the process and learning curve.

Just an idea. Continual process improvement will enable us as reviewers 
to become more proficient :)

Cheers,
Dre Armeda


On 4/21/11 8:49 AM, Towfiq I. wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net 
> <mailto:chip at chipbennett.net>> wrote:
>
>     A good question.
>
>     When we only had 3-6 active reviewers, we would, purely out of
>     necessity, perform cursory reviews. Unfortunately, that practice
>     primarily led to the Theme developers addressing only the issues
>     noted in the cursory review, and not ensuring that all of the
>     Guidelines were met. Thus, we would end up seeing the same Theme,
>     several times - and each time, reviewing the Theme would incur the
>     overhead of a new review.
>
>     So, now that we have many reviewers, I would strongly recommend
>     that every review be as thorough and complete as possible. Our
>     goal would be to review a Theme only once (if perfect the first
>     time) or twice (the second time, addressing all issues in the
>     first review) before approval.
>
>     Also, doing so will help all of the new reviewers through the
>     learning process of performing Theme reviews.
>
>     Chip
>
>
>
> Totally Agree with Chip...
>
> -- 
> Towfiq I.
>
>
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