[theme-reviewers] Push live request

[Chip Bennett]

Yep, this is exactly why I proposed this idea: so that Admins could
expedite review, approval, and synchronization of currently approved Themes.

The recent changes to the workflow help things tremendously, but they are
entirely separate from, and do not address, the above issue.


On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me> wrote:

> Have you seen this yet?
>
>
> http://make.wordpress.org/themes/2013/05/21/should-priority-1-queue-be-reserved-for-admin-review/
>
> Thanks,
> Emil
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Trent Lapinski <trent at cyberchimps.com>wrote:
>
>> Can we please get a clarification on what the new review process actually
>> is?
>>
>> I'm still a bit confused.
>>
>> I was under the impression the new admin only review system was supposed
>> to set a theme as live shortly after being approved by an admin. This
>> worked well for a few weeks, but as of about 7-10 days ago it doesn't seem
>> to happening anymore and a dozen or so approved themes have been left
>> unattended for 7-days now.
>>
>> The new admin only approval / live system also simply created a new
>> problem where we essentially traded a 7-day go live period for a 4-7 day
>> approval. While it helped going live faster initially it hurt themes
>> getting reviewed in a timely manor. Now both methods appear to be broken.
>>
>> Currently a priority 1 review can now take 3-7 days to even get reviewed,
>> and are now taking an additional 3-7 days to go live. This means a simple
>> priority #1 diff review can take up to 14 days before it is reviewed, and
>> actually pushed live.
>>
>> There has to be a more efficient way to handle this.
>>
>> Unfortunately even if a bunch if reviewers made it our mission to clear
>> out the queue every day we're back to waiting a week+ to go live again.
>>
>> Perhaps it's time we consider adding more admins and/or giving priority
>> 1's the ability to go live shortly after approval?
>>
>> -- Trent Lapinski
>> CEO of CyberChimps
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> On Jun 25, 2013, at 1:06 PM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
>>
>> > On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Philip M. Hofer (Frumph)
>> > <philip at frumph.net> wrote:
>> >> Regardless of who is volunteering, there are a handful of volunteers
>> with
>> >> the ability to do it; if they cannot they need to find someone who can
>> >> fullfill that part of the responsibilities within the volunteer
>> >> administrators or find someone who can do it;
>> >
>> > Thank you for the feedback, however we are already looking into this
>> > and have been for some time now.
>> >
>> > -Otto
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