<div dir="ltr">Greg can be one of trusted reviewers. :-) <div><br></div><div>Admins should know who are more experienced Reviewers. I would suggest to ask them personally if they are interested becoming Trusted Reviewers. Alternatively we can ask for <span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">volunteers. </span><div>
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">If they can create another role in trac, it will be great. Otherwise, </span>Trusted Reviewers can review the approved theme and make recommendation to Admins for live. If there are issues, they can make notes in ticket and ask admin to reopen the ticket. Admins can train these Experienced/trusted Reviewers and potentially appoint them into admin role.</div>
</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div><br></div><div>Stephen</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 4:00 PM, Greg Priday <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:greg@siteorigin.com" target="_blank">greg@siteorigin.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I didn't realize there were so few active reviewers these days. Time to get stuck into the ticket queue again. I actually stopped when the incentive program came along and tickets were so hard to come by.<div>
<br></div><div>That wont help the admin queue, but hopefully things go back to normal there eventually :)</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 9:42 PM, Emil Uzelac <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:emil@uzelac.me" target="_blank">emil@uzelac.me</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">We have about 100 +/- reviewers and maybe 10 +/- that are active. TRT works with 4 admins +1 that does <a href="http://make.wordpress.org/themes/about/trac-ticket-request-queue/trac-ticket-request-queue-summer-2014/" target="_blank">ticket assignments</a> only. I would say that only 2 of us are active.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Do we need more help? Yessiree. Appoint? We don't have people to appoint. Hire? At this time that is not possible. Automate? Not a solution. Approved to Live will create a mess and quadruple work for admins, so instead of weeks, the process would turn into months. Trusted? sure, feel free to recommend!</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">This sucks and we know, but there is nothing much we can do about :)</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </div></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Stephen Cui <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:scui2005@gmail.com" target="_blank">scui2005@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Do we have any plan to improve the process? We are volunteers. It seems that volunteer based system has failed for TRT. Do not get me wrong here. I am not blaming any admins not doing their job. I simply ask if we have any plan. e.g.:<div>
<br></div><div>- Appoint more admins</div><div>- Hire full time admin</div><div>- automate the go-live process - e.g. if the theme is not live for 2 weeks, it will go-live automatically.</div><div>- Change the Approved status to Reviewed :-)</div>
<div>- As suggested by Chip, appoint some trusted reviewer.</div><div><br></div><div>IMO, 4-5 weeks or more waiting time is not acceptable for anyone. Any suggestion from fellow TRT member?</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div>
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<div><br></div><div>Stephen</div></font></span></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Emil Uzelac <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:emil@uzelac.me" target="_blank">emil@uzelac.me</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">We don't have enough of active admins. Current wait period is 4-5 weeks maybe even longer.</div>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 12:42 PM, W P <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wp@support.mythem.es" target="_blank">wp@support.mythem.es</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div>
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<div><div dir="ltr"><span style="line-height:21px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-size:15px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Our new theme have been approved 2 weeks ago and it's not alive yet... </span><br style="line-height:21px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-size:15px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<br style="line-height:21px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-size:15px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/19363" style="line-height:21px;color:rgb(0,104,207);font-size:15px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" target="_blank">https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/19363</a><br style="line-height:21px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-size:15px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<br style="line-height:21px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-size:15px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="line-height:21px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-size:15px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">thanks</span> </div>
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