[theme-reviewers] how to make reviewing faster

[Emil Uzelac]

No need to delete, discussions are always welcomed :)




On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Bernard Latanowicz <
bernard.latanowicz at gmail.com> wrote:

>  I see your point.
> Maybe 121 reviewed themes in last 7 days is not a bad result.
> I believe you tried such idea as mine and maybe you're right. It was just
> my idea, so I'd like to thank you for the discussion.
> I know many of people don't update themes because of laziness. I've got
> too much work and other duties as well. But I know there are plenty of
> people with short-lived enthusiasm.
>
> Have a nice day/evening/night*
> Bernard
> * delete as appropriate :-)
>
>
> W dniu 2012-12-13 21:48, Emil Uzelac pisze:
>
> I don't think that we're in position of classifying anyone lazy.
>
>  What we need is more Themes and leave the updates to their authors.
>
>  Any Theme that does not get updated over the certain period won't
> show in the search anyways and if they're found via Google for
> example, this is what user will see<http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/default>
> :
>
>  People contribute for many reasons, but they're not required
> to keep Themes up to date no, that is 110% up to them.
>
>  Not to sound rude or anything and that's not my intention here, but
> I have to say that we should get involved here<http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/>first, that's what
> will speed up the process for sure and give you better understand
> what we're dealing with.
>
>  And once again, we don't believe in lazy, that's not even in our
> dictionary :)
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Bernard Latanowicz <
> bernard.latanowicz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  Thanks, Chip and Bryan.
>>
>> I've beend thinking about it as well.
>> But a reviewer with higher priviliges could check the review before
>> closing it. The "younger reviewer" will earn points only if the "older
>> reviewer" approves his work.
>>
>> I know some people could say - I'm too lazy to test or I'm too awesome
>> for testing, so I screw uploading my awesome theme.
>>
>> But guys, if WP has lazy developers it will become a huge garbage than
>> repository.
>> There are a lot of themes and plugins with 1.0 version or which haven't
>> been updated for months and years. Plenty of times I noticed bugs on forums
>> and guess what. Nothing. Is that what we really want?
>>
>> Do we need few developers or a lot of fame-wanted lazy people?
>>
>> Bernard
>>
>>
>> W dniu 2012-12-13 20:50, Bryan Hadaway pisze:
>>
>>  "Why not to have a rule - if you want to add your theme, first you must
>> review one (or more)."
>>
>> 1. Because theme authors are already contributing work for the community.
>> They're *already* donating their time, work and effort for free, they
>> should not have to do anything else. This would be like paying someone $10
>> so that you have the privilege of buying them a $5 hamburger, just doesn't
>> make sense.
>>
>> 2. Besides the fact that the community would simply miss out on the
>> potential themes from authors who said "Screw that.", of the ones that did
>> review, they would likely be one-off, half-assed reviews, just enough to
>> get by. I've seen similar methodologies attempted in other review forums,
>> "You must review a website before your website can be reviewed." and it's
>> just a waste of time quality wise.
>>
>> Current wait time for review: 2 months
>> Wait time for your theme to go live once it's been approved: About a week
>>
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