[theme-reviewers] Featured Themes

[Justin Tadlock]

When Charlie opened this topic, I think he may have had the right 
intentions but focused on the wrong thing.  Even if he didn't, I'm going 
to shift gears for a bit.

Of course, anyone who puts in the kind of time that's required to review 
all those themes and see them through until they get approved, deserves 
some major credit.  The review incentive program is awesome for that, 
and I'm happy we implemented it.

The featured themes list has always been something of a mystery to most 
theme authors.  The real "problem" is actually getting a theme 
featured.  Whenever that question comes up, I hope our default answer 
isn't going to be "the review incentive program".

That's never been nor should it be the only way for a theme to get featured.

Not everyone has the time to do reviews.  It's not necessarily something 
they have control over.  And, it's not something that should stand in 
the way of their theme getting equal treatment when we're deciding on 
featured themes.

There are really good, quality themes that never get showcased because 
our featured themes list isn't rotated often enough.  This has been 
discussed before, but how themes get featured is not an open process.  
I'd like to see that changed.

I'm not sure exactly what to do to change it, but it's something worth 
discussing.