[theme-reviewers] New review workflow

[Greg Priday]

With the new workflow, is it possible to reopen tickets that have been
closed as newer-version-uploaded? One of my tickets was closed, but I'd
rather keep it open it to keep my place in the queue.


On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 5:46 AM, Jason Gottschalk <jason at gottschalk.ca>wrote:

> Yes it's working now
> On 2013-05-22 11:32 PM, "Chandra Maharzan" <maharzan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Does the close new version uploaded option work now? I tried that
>> yesterday and it kept saying its not an option or something.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 8:00 AM, Paul Appleyard <paul at spacecat.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Nice work guys! To hell with paying work, I'm a-gonna go in and do
>>> another review with this shiny new system!
>>>
>>> Paul Appleyard
>>>
>>>
>>> On 23/05/2013 4:06 AM, Otto wrote:
>>>
>>>> You all may have noticed that the review process in Trac is changing.
>>>> This is a work-in-progress, in an attempt to streamline the process
>>>> and make it a little more obvious and clear. Additionally, we will
>>>> (eventually) be automating the "push-to-live" process to attempt to
>>>> make that faster and to hopefully eliminate the 1 week delay emails on
>>>> this list.
>>>>
>>>> You can thank/blame Andrew Nacin for all of this. He knows the ins and
>>>> outs of Trac far better than I do. :)
>>>>
>>>> Here's a brief overview of the process:
>>>>
>>>> Reviewers: You will have the ability to go to a ticket and choose one
>>>> of two things:
>>>>   * review
>>>>   * resolve as closed-newer-version-uploaded
>>>>
>>>> The idea here is that you pick a ticket to review, then change the
>>>> status to "review". This will mark the ticket as being owned by you
>>>> and say that you are in the process of reviewing it.
>>>>
>>>> Once you're done, you can post your review, and you have the ability to:
>>>>   * resolve as not-approved
>>>>   * resolve as closed-newer-version-uploaded
>>>>   * approve
>>>>
>>>> The first two are obvious, but the "approve" is changing. Now it will
>>>> no longer close the ticket. Instead, it will mark the ticket as
>>>> approved, and go into a separate queue for the admins. This queue will
>>>> let the admins, from Trac, choose to either "reopen" the ticket,
>>>> leaving comments and explaining what more needs to be done, or they
>>>> can mark the theme as ready for going live.
>>>>
>>>> Marking the theme as ready for live will, eventually, do the process
>>>> automatically and make the theme live on WordPress.org/themes. Still
>>>> working on that bit. :)
>>>>
>>>> The admins can also choose to assign themes to individual reviewers.
>>>> The reviewer at that point will still need to go to the ticket and
>>>> mark it as "review" to let the theme authors know that it's being
>>>> actively reviewed.
>>>>
>>>> The goal is to streamline the process, make theme authors know what's
>>>> going on better, and to eliminate the manual portions here.
>>>>
>>>> Eventually, we hope to simplify the newer-version part as well, but
>>>> for now, the standard rule applies. If you pick a theme in the queue,
>>>> the first thing to do is to check if any newer versions of the theme
>>>> exist, and review the newer version while marking the old versions as
>>>> "closed-newer-version-**uploaded". Please, again, do NOT mark a theme
>>>> as
>>>> closed-newer-version-uploaded without doing a review of the latest
>>>> version. This is to maintain the queue ordering.
>>>>
>>>> Hope that helps. More changes to come. :)
>>>>
>>>> -Otto
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