[theme-reviewers] Proposed Theme Review Day

[Amy Hendrix]

I really like Nitin's* idea of a theme review meetup, and I wanted to
pull it out into its own thread and propose that we start as soon as
possible, using the existing IRC channel #wordpress-themes in order to
simplify the logistics as much as possible.

I'm not in any position to make this an official meeting of any kind,
but there's no reason on earth that we can't just get together and do
it!

The model I have in mind is http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Bug_Hunts

* This isn't a meeting with an agenda: it's a group work day. Drop in
for as long as you're available, and get as many reviews done as you
can during that time.
* The goal is to crunch through as much of the queue as possible while
helping and learning from our peers.
* All reviewers, however new or experienced, can bring questions about
how to handle particular issues. Absolutely no penalties for admitting
you're stuck ;)
* Themers, you're welcome to join in the discussion, try your hand at
reviewing, or just lurk and learn the process. However, please *don't*
use this time to ask about when your own theme will be done -- we're
taking everything in queue order, and we'd most likely just encourage
you to sign on to review a few themes.
* For new or potential reviewers, more experienced people will try to
help out as much as we can with getting started, working with trac,
setting up your test environment and the like.

I'd love to get this going as quickly as possible in order to capture
some of the energy that's come out of these discussions lately. For
that reason, I will be in IRC tomorrow at 1700UTC/Noon US Eastern, and
I'd love it if we can get as many people as we can to join in, even if
it's only for a short time -- if this turns into a regular thing, we'd
obviously want to work out a good way to schedule and make
announcements a bit further in advance.



* Apologies if I've got the credit wrong -- I discovered this morning
that half the list mail was going to my spam folder, so I've been
following parts of the discussion completely out of order.