[theme-reviewers] Safeguards

[Srikanth Koneru]

The reviewer is same in all three tickets and is not a new reviewer, When
those tickets were submitted there is a wait list of 1-2 months but they
all got reviewed in a couple of days.


On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 10:10 PM, Bryan Hadaway <bhadaway at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think the rule should only apply to newly submitted themes, like I said,
> once a theme is established, some more organized "at it all the time"
> reviewers keep track and review new versions of themes they first reviewed
> as soon as they get the email notice.
>
> Which also depends on the theme author giving them a heads up by posted a
> notice on the old ticket of the new one. Freely available to all, but most
> authors don't know or don't bother to do this.
>
> But, back to NEW themes getting approved within a week. That seems like
> point blank, caught red-handed, dead to rights favoritism to me. I can't
> even see new reviewers accidentally reviewing these, are they playing
> Russian Roulette, how would they naturally end up on that theme unless
> purposefully seeking it out?
>
> The only benefit of the doubt I see is that some people read right to left
> or bottom to top or perhaps they've somehow decided the best methodology is
> to review newest themes first.
>
> In which case, maybe a guideline about doing your best to try and review
> in order of highest queue rank and oldest submissions first. Naturally,
> there has to be some leeway of course. Like taking a test, if one
> question's too difficult, move onto the next. Especially with experimental
> themes, obviously there needs to be slack on skipping some themes in the
> queue, but go on to the next in the queue, don't jump to the end or middle
> or whatever as a general rule of courtesy.
>
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