[theme-reviewers] New review workflow

[Srikanth Koneru]

Nice, did a quick review.
For some reason i don't get email when the theme author replies, is that
normal or do i need to check some box?


On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 11:45 PM, Jose Castaneda <jomcastaneda at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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