[theme-reviewers] Proposed Theme Review Day

[Justin Tadlock]

I'm loving this idea too.  I'm horrible at just dropping in and doing 
reviews.  I'm the kind of person who needs an organized schedule to 
actually get things done.  With an official theme review day, I can work 
it into my regular schedule.

On 1/27/2012 10:48 AM, Chip Bennett wrote:
> I like it!
>
> (This may even make a good replacement for our erstwhile WPTRT monthly 
> IRC meetings.)
>
> I'll write something up on the Make Themes site, and get the word out!
>
> Chip
>
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Amy Hendrix <sabreuse at gmail.com 
> <mailto:sabreuse at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     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.
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