[theme-reviewers] New review workflow

[Jose Castaneda]

Huge thanks to both you and Andrew Nacin, Otto. Looking forward to doing my
first review under the new system. Hopefully tomorrow. :)


On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me> wrote:

> It sure does help, thanks :)
>
> Emil
>
>
> On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
>
>> You all may have noticed that the review process in Trac is changing.
>> This is a work-in-progress, in an attempt to streamline the process
>> and make it a little more obvious and clear. Additionally, we will
>> (eventually) be automating the "push-to-live" process to attempt to
>> make that faster and to hopefully eliminate the 1 week delay emails on
>> this list.
>>
>> You can thank/blame Andrew Nacin for all of this. He knows the ins and
>> outs of Trac far better than I do. :)
>>
>> Here's a brief overview of the process:
>>
>> Reviewers: You will have the ability to go to a ticket and choose one
>> of two things:
>>  * review
>>  * resolve as closed-newer-version-uploaded
>>
>> The idea here is that you pick a ticket to review, then change the
>> status to "review". This will mark the ticket as being owned by you
>> and say that you are in the process of reviewing it.
>>
>> Once you're done, you can post your review, and you have the ability to:
>>  * resolve as not-approved
>>  * resolve as closed-newer-version-uploaded
>>  * approve
>>
>> The first two are obvious, but the "approve" is changing. Now it will
>> no longer close the ticket. Instead, it will mark the ticket as
>> approved, and go into a separate queue for the admins. This queue will
>> let the admins, from Trac, choose to either "reopen" the ticket,
>> leaving comments and explaining what more needs to be done, or they
>> can mark the theme as ready for going live.
>>
>> Marking the theme as ready for live will, eventually, do the process
>> automatically and make the theme live on WordPress.org/themes. Still
>> working on that bit. :)
>>
>> The admins can also choose to assign themes to individual reviewers.
>> The reviewer at that point will still need to go to the ticket and
>> mark it as "review" to let the theme authors know that it's being
>> actively reviewed.
>>
>> The goal is to streamline the process, make theme authors know what's
>> going on better, and to eliminate the manual portions here.
>>
>> Eventually, we hope to simplify the newer-version part as well, but
>> for now, the standard rule applies. If you pick a theme in the queue,
>> the first thing to do is to check if any newer versions of the theme
>> exist, and review the newer version while marking the old versions as
>> "closed-newer-version-uploaded". Please, again, do NOT mark a theme as
>> closed-newer-version-uploaded without doing a review of the latest
>> version. This is to maintain the queue ordering.
>>
>> Hope that helps. More changes to come. :)
>>
>> -Otto
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