All,<div><br></div><div>Please read; comments welcome!</div><div><a href="http://make.wordpress.org/themes/2011/12/15/getting-the-review-queue-back-on-track/">http://make.wordpress.org/themes/2011/12/15/getting-the-review-queue-back-on-track/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>The TL;DR list of changes:</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px!important;margin-bottom:22px!important;margin-left:18px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;color:rgb(85,85,85);font-size:13px;line-height:18px;overflow-x:visible;overflow-y:visible;list-style-position:initial;border-width:initial;border-color:initial;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-right-style:none;border-bottom-style:none;border-left-style:none;border-top-style:none;border-top-width:0px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(246,243,209)">
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Anyone who requests a ticket to review, and then completes their assigned review, will be given full “reviewer” status in Theme-Trac</li><li style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:2px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;overflow-x:visible;overflow-y:visible;border-top-style:none;border-width:initial;border-color:initial;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-right-style:none;border-bottom-style:none;border-left-style:none">
We’re adding a fourth tier to the prioritization, which will become the new #2 priority: tickets that have been in the review queue for longer than two weeks, regardless of previous review/approval status</li><li style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:2px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;overflow-x:visible;overflow-y:visible;border-top-style:none;border-width:initial;border-color:initial;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-right-style:none;border-bottom-style:none;border-left-style:none">
Any review-based Theme revision that is submitted within two days of the previous review will be assigned to the previous-ticket reviewer, and the review continued on the new ticket</li><li style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:2px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;overflow-x:visible;overflow-y:visible;border-top-style:none;border-width:initial;border-color:initial;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-right-style:none;border-bottom-style:none;border-left-style:none">
W3C Validation criticality is being reduced from REQUIRED to RECOMMENDED, and Theme reviewers will no longer make review comments regarding W3C Validation</li><li style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:2px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;overflow-x:visible;overflow-y:visible;border-top-style:none;border-width:initial;border-color:initial;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-right-style:none;border-bottom-style:none;border-left-style:none">
The Theme Review Team will no longer emphasize complete and thorough reviews, and will instead close tickets upon observation of any non-trivial issues</li></ul></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>As always, this is an evolving experiment; we're still/always trying to improve. Thank you, all, for your continued contributions as Theme developers and reviewers!</div>
<div><br></div><div>Chip</div>