[theme-reviewers] Theme trac and emails

[Edward Caissie]

@Otto ...

Here's a bit of a wish list you can look into for us:

(Summary: New column - 3 dropdown options (new, fix, update) auto set by
previous results - start work on SVN access for theme authors?)

We would like added to Trac (see screenshot here:
http://frumph.net/stuff/trac.jpg) a new column for additional status.

This column is to be auto-set when a theme is uploaded into the system.

   - New - obvious, new theme
   - Fix - set by reviewer prior to the actual review, or possibly by the
   theme author as a note to reviewer
   - Update - based on the theme being previously passed and live in the
   repository

This will help with the manual process until SVN access for theme authors to
update their "live" themes is implemented. This is important and we realize
is time consuming.

This is just a start ...

Thanks,


Cais.


On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 7:04 PM, Edward Caissie <edward.caissie at gmail.com>wrote:

> The more we can keep the authors in the loop the better we can communicate
> with them.
>
> As it sits now, the author gets an email from Extend/Themes when the button
> "mark as old" or "approved" is clicked.
>
> That is all the communication that is done (by defaults) at the moment that
> I am aware of, adding emails from Trac would be a great help.
>
> While you are looking at it, can you add an auto-subscribed "update by
> email" function ... or at least on by default, if possible.
>
>
> Cais.
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
>
>> Looking at the uploader, I see how it works. Basically, it connects to
>> trac as "themetracbot" to submit the ticket. The problem is that it
>> doesn't have access to the user's password at this point, so it can't
>> create the ticket as the uploader user itself.
>>
>> I'll need to examine the trac code to see how it takes the passwords
>> and such, but I don't see this as unfixable. If the ticket was created
>> by the uploader user, then that might work better and allow for better
>> emails and bidirectional communication and such.
>>
>> -Otto
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Simon Prosser <pross at pross.org.uk>
>> wrote:
>> >> AFAIK when a ticket is created it only has a name, that all the
>> uploader
>> >> passes it, no owner no email address nothing, we 'claim' the ticket
>> when we
>> >> assign it to ourselves.
>> >
>> > Hmph. The data is there when they're uploading, but yes I see now that
>> > all the tickets are created by some kind of bot system.
>> >
>> > If the tickets were created by the theme author, then it would be tied
>> > into the org usernames and emails to them would likely work.
>> >
>> > I'll see if I can figure out how that uploader process works.
>> >
>> > -Otto
>> >
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