[theme-reviewers] splitting reviewers between queues

Fri Jan 27 08:36:47 UTC 2012

I find Badges are a great idea. They should also be included into the
WordPress Profile Pages. http://profiles.wordpress.org/users/ or
http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/profile/ . BTW why are there different
profile pages on wordpress.org?

I currently don't review themes cause of my exams but I will begin
reviewing again in 2 weeks ;)

2012/1/26 Rankin, Matthew W. (Student) <mrankin at my.ccsu.edu>

>  Not directly related to this email thread but seems like a good place to
> post it. I was thinking about why there aren't more volunteer reviewers and
> why many are slow to review themes. I think it may be because it lacks
> incentive. So, I had an idea which may attract more reviewers and increase
> productivity among current reviewers. My idea is to create a WordPress
> badge. Theme reviewers can post this badge on their own websites to say
> that they contribute to WordPress. You could even create different levels
> of badges so as you review more themes you get higher level badges. It's a
> simple idea which has proven effective on many websites around the web.
> What does everyone else think of this idea?
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> *From:* theme-reviewers-bounces at lists.wordpress.org [
> theme-reviewers-bounces at lists.wordpress.org] on behalf of Rankin, Matthew
> W. (Student) [mrankin at my.ccsu.edu]
> *Sent:* Thursday, January 26, 2012 12:49 PM
>
> *To:* theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
> *Subject:* Re: [theme-reviewers] splitting reviewers between queues
>
>   I'll do my best to follow your lead Chip. I've just been so busy lately
> I haven't had time to do many reviews. But I should be able to fit in one
> theme a day.
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> *From:* theme-reviewers-bounces at lists.wordpress.org [
> theme-reviewers-bounces at lists.wordpress.org] on behalf of Chip Bennett [
> chip at chipbennett.net]
> *Sent:* Thursday, January 26, 2012 12:31 PM
> *To:* theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
> *Subject:* Re: [theme-reviewers] splitting reviewers between queues
>
>  I don't think a paradigm shift is necessary (or helpful) at this point.
>
>  The bottom line is: about 10 tickets per day are submitted. Thus, we
> need about 10 tickets per day reviewed and closed, in order to keep up with
> the submission rate. We are approaching 100 people who have reviewed
> Themes. If every person with ticket privileges reviewed two tickets, we
> would exhaust the current queue entirely.
>
>  I've tried to push in the past to get reviewers to consider committing
> to a certain minimum level of participation, but as you've noted: it's not
> practical. We ARE all volunteers, and all have extremely busy schedules. (I
> last saw a "40-hour work week" sometime last summer.) Efforts to get such
> commitments inevitably have the opposite effect, as IMX they have only
> driven volunteers AWAY from contributing their time.
>
>  That said: I'll do my best to lead by example. I will commit to
> reviewing one Theme per day, every day.
>
>  Chip
>
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Edward Caissie <edward.caissie at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Although it shouldn't need to be written, but once again it appears a
>> reminder appears to be needed ...
>>
>> To the best of my knowledge, every member of the current Theme Review
>> Team is a volunteer. Every member also has a "full work load" with many
>> simply unable to devote any time to this volunteer activity during that
>> scheduled time. Many of the volunteers have other additional WordPress
>> related activities that add to their typical "40-hour week" work load. We
>> all have lives, too ... so, quite simply, we give what time we can and look
>> to the community to contribute some of their time. Wait times, as noted
>> many times, are inversely proportional to the amount of volunteer reviewers
>> available to do the work.
>>
>> We can appreciate the wait time is long and frustrating. This is not the
>> only time this topic has been discussed, these are not the only ideas that
>> have been considered. Unfortunately until their is perhaps a paradigm shift
>> in regards to the WPTRT we may simply be forced to continue to endure and
>> forge ahead under these conditions.
>>
>>
>> Cais.
>>
>>
>>  On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Bruce Wampler <weavertheme at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>>  I would like to add my perspective on the review process.
>>>
>>> I have been submitting one theme - with revisions and slight name
>>> modifications - for almost two years now - starting with 2010 Weaver,
>>> changed to simply Weaver, and now Weaver II.
>>>
>>> Because Weaver II is a name change, and represents a total rewrite of
>>> Weaver, it has been in the Priority Queue for almost 3 months now. I've
>>> just been sitting here waiting my turn.
>>>
>>> But seriously - three months for new themes? The past week, the review
>>> rate has been only one new theme reviewed.
>>>
>>> It is important to keep existing themes up to date - but to essentially
>>> have the new theme approval rate one a week will do nothing to encourage
>>> authors to submit new themes.
>>>
>>> I had good reasons to change from Weaver to Weaver II, and perhaps
>>> should have requested it be treated as a revision of the existing approved
>>> theme. But I don know if I knew three months ago, that I likely would have
>>> done things differently, including the possibility of simply abandoning the
>>> WP theme repository.
>>>
>>> But Weaver II represents a cutting edge theme/framework that has (or had
>>> three months ago) really new features, including what I think is likely the
>>> best mobile support of any WP theme. It is really frustrating to see it
>>> languish in the queue.
>>>
>>> I just think a almost three month wait is excessive, and will seriously
>>> discourage developers from developing and submitting new themes.
>>>
>>> The discussion of new 3.4 features seems almost silly since if the new
>>> queue theme stays at several months, it is likely that there won't be any
>>> new themes.
>>>
>>> I believe is really important to keep fresh, new themes with cutting
>>> edge features coming in for the future health of WordPress.
>>>
>>> Just some thoughts. I believe something needs to be done. I'd volunteer
>>> to review some themes, but I have serious ethical concerns about that, as
>>> well as a full work load supporting my theme which has become very popular
>>> on its own while waiting on the queue.
>>>
>>> Bruce Wampler
>>>
>>>
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