<div dir="ltr">I don't like the proposal. While I'm all for getting more reviewers, I'd never back a plan that required theme authors to also review themes. Some people simply want to release free themes to the community and nothing more. We don't need any more barriers to entry than we already have. This is the sort of thing that might make a gifted developer just say "screw it" and go build his own theme repository to compete with ours. Or, for some theme authors to simply not release awesome themes here because they don't have the time to contribute to reviews.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 10:06 AM, 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"><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/chat/" target="_blank">https://make.wordpress.org/chat/</a><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br><br>On Wednesday, October 29, 2014, Srikanth Koneru <<a href="mailto:tskk79@gmail.com" target="_blank">tskk79@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Inspire others by reviewing a ton of themes :)<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 7:08 PM, myazalea <span dir="ltr"><<a>myazalea@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>I still believe that making it easier for authors to submit higher quality themes is the way to go.</div>
<div>The guidelines have to be clear. I got fed up after having pretty much every ticket I reviewed reopened because of things that were not marked as required.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">no aggression, just stating the fact :)<br>
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<div>On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 6:57 PM, Afzaal (ThinkUpThemes)
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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Wow, wasn’t expecting such aggression. Just sharing thoughts Srikanth.
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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Love to hear your thoughts as mentioned. Do you think it’s beneficial to end users to have a broken theme and for us to not have this discussion?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> 29 October 2014 13:24<br>
<b>To:</b> Discussion list for WordPress theme reviewers.<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [theme-reviewers] Tackling long review times<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p>Instead of wasting time monitoring the percentages, its more beneficial to actually review themes.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p>I just wanted to share some thoughts and hear the thoughts from others on possible methods for tackling the long wait time for theme reviews. Although long wait times are less of an issue for new themes, I’m more concerned with the recent
increase in wait times for theme updates. Often updates are released to fix issues and in an ideal world it would be great to have these reach users quickly.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p>In a recent discussion Tammie applauded SiteOrigin for their commitment in allocating 5% of their resources to assist with WordPress.org activities. I definitely believe that anyone benefitting financially from WordPress.org should in
recognition of this opportunity allocate some of their resources back to WordPress.org. Anything at all would be beneficial.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p>So here’s my proposal. Any author that submits a theme (either new or update) should first complete a review before that theme itself can be reviewed.
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<p>The benefits of this are:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt">
</span>Reduce the wait time in the review queue.<u></u><u></u></p>
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</span>More themes will be reviewed by experienced developers (those who themselves have developed a theme for acceptance to WP.org<u></u><u></u></p>
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</span>Help to make the reviewer a better developer.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p>As an initial thought the number of reviews that the author must complete will be a percentage based on the number of themes ahead of them in the review queue.<u></u><u></u></p>
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</span>New Theme – Review 2%. E.g if you are approximately at position 100, kindly review 2 new themes.<u></u><u></u></p>
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</span>Theme update – Review 10%. E.g if you are approximately at position 60, kindly review 6 updates.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p>I know that this is a very rough estimate, and yes the absolute value calculated from the percentage will vary as each new review is picked up. However, I’d like to think we can be trusted to broadly follow any guidelines we may agree
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<p>Love to hear your thoughts! <span style="font-family:Wingdings">
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<p><span style="color:#888888">Afzaal<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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