[theme-reviewers] splitting reviewers between queues

Fri Jan 27 13:41:31 UTC 2012

I haven't reviewed any themes but I do think  this volunteer thing
might need to go at some point. Have a dedicated team who reviews
themes and they get incentives on each theme or something. Otherwise
like a person said above, people are discouraged. I was when I
submitted a theme about a year ago and it was reviewed in a long time
and the same thing is happening now. And I have 2 themes in the repo,
pretty popular ones. I am sure many designers feel like me.

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Phenomenoodle | Taryn Wallis
<taryn at phenomenoodle.com> wrote:
> Up until about 5 years ago (when I transitioned into web design full-time) I
> was an Organizational Psychologist - things like badges work well as a
> motivational tool for some types of people, and absolutely not for others.
> I'm one of the others :)
>
> If there was a badge, I might consider putting it on my site, but it would
> have zero impact from an incentive point of view. I'm far more internally
> motivated, so external things like badges (or certificates etc) have no real
> meaning to me. In terms of theme reviews, I contribute because it allows me
> to give back to the community and to also learn from the experience - if I'm
> not able to do reviews, it's not because of lack of motivation, but simply a
> lack of time :(
>
> ______________________________
> Taryn Wallis
> Phenomenoodle
> WordPress design & development
> www.phenomenoodle.com
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Netzberufler <netzberufler at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> 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?
>>> ________________________________
>>> 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.
>>> ________________________________
>>> 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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