[theme-reviewers] Proposed Theme Review Day

Amy Hendrix sabreuse at gmail.com
Fri Jan 27 18:21:20 UTC 2012


That would rock -- nothing like having a solid goal!

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:
> In the write-up, I think I will mention the goal of clearing out the
> Priority #2 queue entirely.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Chip
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Justin Tadlock <justin at justintadlock.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I'm loving this idea too.  I'm horrible at just dropping in and doing
>> reviews.  I'm the kind of person who needs an organized schedule to actually
>> get things done.  With an official theme review day, I can work it into my
>> regular schedule.
>>
>>
>> On 1/27/2012 10:48 AM, Chip Bennett wrote:
>>
>> I like it!
>>
>> (This may even make a good replacement for our erstwhile WPTRT monthly IRC
>> meetings.)
>>
>> I'll write something up on the Make Themes site, and get the word out!
>>
>> Chip
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Amy Hendrix <sabreuse at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I really like Nitin's* idea of a theme review meetup, and I wanted to
>>> pull it out into its own thread and propose that we start as soon as
>>> possible, using the existing IRC channel #wordpress-themes in order to
>>> simplify the logistics as much as possible.
>>>
>>> I'm not in any position to make this an official meeting of any kind,
>>> but there's no reason on earth that we can't just get together and do
>>> it!
>>>
>>> The model I have in mind is
>>> http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Bug_Hunts
>>>
>>> * This isn't a meeting with an agenda: it's a group work day. Drop in
>>> for as long as you're available, and get as many reviews done as you
>>> can during that time.
>>> * The goal is to crunch through as much of the queue as possible while
>>> helping and learning from our peers.
>>> * All reviewers, however new or experienced, can bring questions about
>>> how to handle particular issues. Absolutely no penalties for admitting
>>> you're stuck ;)
>>> * Themers, you're welcome to join in the discussion, try your hand at
>>> reviewing, or just lurk and learn the process. However, please *don't*
>>> use this time to ask about when your own theme will be done -- we're
>>> taking everything in queue order, and we'd most likely just encourage
>>> you to sign on to review a few themes.
>>> * For new or potential reviewers, more experienced people will try to
>>> help out as much as we can with getting started, working with trac,
>>> setting up your test environment and the like.
>>>
>>> I'd love to get this going as quickly as possible in order to capture
>>> some of the energy that's come out of these discussions lately. For
>>> that reason, I will be in IRC tomorrow at 1700UTC/Noon US Eastern, and
>>> I'd love it if we can get as many people as we can to join in, even if
>>> it's only for a short time -- if this turns into a regular thing, we'd
>>> obviously want to work out a good way to schedule and make
>>> announcements a bit further in advance.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> * Apologies if I've got the credit wrong -- I discovered this morning
>>> that half the list mail was going to my spam folder, so I've been
>>> following parts of the discussion completely out of order.
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