[theme-reviewers] New review workflow

[Chip Bennett]

Keeping a ticket open, post-review, is solely the prerogative of the
reviewer. (That may change in future workflow changes, if/when a Theme is
tracked in a single ticket from upload through approval.)


On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Greg Priday <greg at siteorigin.com> wrote:

> With the new workflow, is it possible to reopen tickets that have been
> closed as newer-version-uploaded? One of my tickets was closed, but I'd
> rather keep it open it to keep my place in the queue.
>
>
> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 5:46 AM, Jason Gottschalk <jason at gottschalk.ca>wrote:
>
>> Yes it's working now
>> On 2013-05-22 11:32 PM, "Chandra Maharzan" <maharzan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Does the close new version uploaded option work now? I tried that
>>> yesterday and it kept saying its not an option or something.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 8:00 AM, Paul Appleyard <paul at spacecat.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Nice work guys! To hell with paying work, I'm a-gonna go in and do
>>>> another review with this shiny new system!
>>>>
>>>> Paul Appleyard
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 23/05/2013 4:06 AM, Otto 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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