[theme-reviewers] Proposed Theme Review Day

[Chip Bennett]

In the write-up, I think I will mention the goal of clearing out the
Priority #2 queue entirely.

Thoughts?

Chip

On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Justin Tadlock
<justin at justintadlock.com>wrote:

>  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> 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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