[theme-reviewers] Theme Update Review

[Emil Uzelac]

#1 Priority should always be prioritized and that's something we have been
preaching for awhile now.

At the same time once assigned it should be reviewed asap, not tomorrow,
not within 7 days.

The past few #1 assignments might be new reviewers, however they're
experienced themers and as far as I know we do not assign #1 to newbies.

System is not broken and we just need to give some time, that's all :)


On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Bruce Wampler <weavertheme at gmail.com>wrote:

> It turns out the reviewer did not have his notifications set properly, and
> didn't even know he had been assigned the theme.
>
> And I was not talking about standard theme reviews - but reviews for
> Priority 1 themes. As I noted, these often contain important bug fixes
> (although that should probably be pointed out when the theme is submitted),
> and I didn't think Priority 1 themes were supposed to get the same
> treatment as the rest of the themes in the queue. That is why Priority 1
> was created.
>
> And at one point, I thought only experienced reviewers were supposed to
> handle Priority 1 themes - there was a big push not that long ago to try to
> get Priority 1 themes pushed through. But it seems now that with all the
> incentives, the new themes are getting pushed through faster than existing
> themes that are simply updating.
>
> I think this need fixing. I understand everyone is a volunteer, but all
> the previous efforts for the Priority 1 themes seems to be broken now:
>
> 1. Apparently new reviewers are now getting assigned Priority 1 themes. In
> at least my case, this led to a several days delay because the new reviewer
> was not yet totally familiar with the process.
>
> 2. But Priority 1 reviews are now the slowest to get reviews. New themes
> seem to be flowing smoothly through the process faster than existing themes.
>
> 3. Maybe there needs to be a mechanism for indicating critical bug
> updates. It happens, and what is now about a two week turnaround for a
> theme update seems too long - especially given new themes are getting
> through faster.
>
> I appreciate everyone's effort - and I'm perfectly happy to wait my turn.
> It just seems that things are broken for Priority 1 themes.
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Christine Rondeau <
> christine at bluelimemedia.com> wrote:
>
>> That's happened to me before as well. Once someone takes your site and
>> reviews it, doesn't mean they will do it in a day. I once had to wait for a
>> week for someone to complete the review.
>>
>> I think that's normal, we all have things to do.
>>
>> **Christine Rondeau
>> Bluelime Media <http://www.bluelimemedia.com>
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