<font color="#333333"><font size="4"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Bruce,</font></font></font><div><font color="#333333"><font size="4"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Thanks for getting involved. The Codex page Chip linked to explains the process pretty well. If you don't feel comfortable rejecting or approving a theme do your review and add it as a comment on the trac ticket and either leave it open or mark as suggest for approval then send a message to the list and someone will take a second look for you. </font></font></font></div>
<div><font color="#333333"><font size="4"><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#333333"><font size="4"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Rejecting a theme is pretty easy because most of the time you will get a bunch of depreciated calls and debug errors. If the theme makes it past the debug and depreciated calls plugin <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/log-deprecated-notices/">http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/log-deprecated-notices/</a> then it gets a little harder because you will have to evaluate all the items on the Theme Development checklist using the Theme Unit Test <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Unit_Test">http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Unit_Test</a> let us know if you have any questions and thanks for jumping in to help.<br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> I've noticed a few comments that say "review a few themes yourself" to help<br>
keep things moving. But I can't find a set of instructions on getting started.<br>
I would guess there are some some place? Specifically,<br>
<br>
How does one get assigned a theme to review, and what steps must one follow<br>
to be able to deny or approve a theme?<br>
<br>
It seems to me from reading the themes comments that:<br>
<br>
1. It must pass the wp_debug message test.<br>
2. It must pass the Deprecated Calls Plugin test (so there must be a plugin for that?)<br>
3. I must properly display all the test from the test data (which is about to have a<br>
new version released, I think).<br>
4. It needs to support new wp 3 menus, and maybe other stuff? Which stuff?<br>
5. Is there any judgment involved for how good the theme must be? Are simple<br>
themes that just give a new color scheme enough?<br>
<br>
I would like to devote some time to reviewing themes, but I want to do it right, and<br>
I haven't found answers to these questions. So perhaps when someone replies to<br>
a question of "Why hasn't my theme been reviewed after a long time?" with "Help<br>
us by reviewing some themes", you could also point to a place that tells us what<br>
the next step is to do that.<br>
<br>
Seems like the current reviewers all know these answers, and assume it is easy<br>
for the rest of us to follow along. It isn't. It is scary to consider denying or approving<br>
a theme, and just trying to figure it out from following the conversations on this<br>
mail list is not enough.<br>
<br>
Thanks in advance.<br>
<br>
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