<div dir="ltr">Okay, so no more argument-forcing from me. We'll take Otto's position here as official policy moving forward.<div><br></div><div>I'm fine with copping to an "above my pay grade" claim here. :)</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Otto <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:otto@ottodestruct.com" target="_blank">otto@ottodestruct.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Chip Bennett <<a href="mailto:chip@chipbennett.net">chip@chipbennett.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> Where is there a win-win here, no matter what we decide?<br>
<br>
</div>Sorry, but I don't claim to have all the answers here.<br>
<br>
It seems to me that you're kind of forcing this argument though. A<br>
company that employees people who make code should have them do code<br>
reviews. Peer-review is a standard in the industry. You review the<br>
code of your co-workers. You review the code of your predecessors. You<br>
review other people's code in order to make better code yourself. I've<br>
done it ever since I've been a professional programmer. It's normal<br>
practice.<br>
<br>
Okay, so maybe some theme shops didn't do it before the incentive<br>
thing. But they're doing it now, and that's good. I'm okay with it,<br>
and I don't think that this constitutes "paying for featured". They're<br>
paying their employees to do something they darned well should have<br>
been doing already. If the community benefits from that, great, more<br>
the better. If we have to drop a small carrot to get them to do it and<br>
better themselves in the process, and improve the state of the code in<br>
the world, hey, that's right in line with our goals. Code is poetry<br>
and such.<br>
<br>
This still strikes me as substantially different than straight up<br>
paying somebody who does reviews to "feature our theme". I'm okay with<br>
companies paying their employees and having reviews be part of that.<br>
I'm not okay with companies finding existing reviewers and paying them<br>
the equivalent of a bribe to showcase their theme. You say it's fine<br>
with disclosure, and I understand your position here, but I'm really<br>
not okay with that even with disclosure. It's not a good arrangement,<br>
it doesn't fit the program in the way I want the program to work.<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
-Otto<br>
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