[theme-reviewers] Contribution days

[Emil Uzelac]

That's a tough one, not really sure how we would scale :)

Main reason, person would need to have an admin privileges, know what
he/she is doing and to be trusted as well.


On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Tammie Lister <karmatosed at gmail.com>
wrote:

> That rocks Emil, and I absolutely appreciate all the effort put in by
> admins to help assign. This happened for us at WordCamp Manchester also, I
> think we woke Chip up a long list of emails :) Your workloads as admins are
> huge though, I'd love to find a way to make this easier on you and the new
> reviewers.
>
> However, that doesn't solve the times when people are busy. Dealing camp
> by camp isn't a great way for scalability. People rightly have lives
> outside of theme reviews and I feel relying on anyone being around isn't
> great or a good solid long term plan. It's unfair on anyone. I'd love to
> see every contribution day (a girl can dream) have a group for Theme
> Review. At that scale, it would be hard to have someone be there all the
> time.
>
> Thanks,
> Tammie Lister
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 5:26 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me> wrote:
>
>> I will be in San Francisco for 5 days, including the Contribution Days.
>> Tickets can be assigned on the spot if needed.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Srikanth Koneru <tskk79 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> A theme that does everything wrong as a training tool, for new reviewers
>>> to cut their teeth, they can practice on it and when ready can start
>>> reviewing themes. I think that will greatly reduce admin effort in auditing
>>> approved themes.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 9:40 PM, Tammie Lister <karmatosed at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I wanted to take a little moment to start up a discussion on whether
>>>> there is anything we can do to make contribution days run a little smoother
>>>> for theme reviews.
>>>>
>>>> Currently, we have a request post that people post to in order to get a
>>>> review. Once assigned, they can do the review. This works well if time
>>>> isn’t poor, often at contribution days we just want to strike while the
>>>> iron is hot and get people contributing. Our current method also puts extra
>>>> weight on admins, who already are doing a great amount of work.
>>>>
>>>> Having people post also poses issues when people may not have posted on
>>>> the blog. They then have to wait to be approved as flagged as potential
>>>> spam before they can even post. This is a double hurdle.
>>>>
>>>> I absolutely understand why we need to have a process and why we can’t
>>>> just let anyone review anything without easing them in. However, I do
>>>> wonder what could be done to improve this process and encourage more people
>>>> to contribute. We need reviewers and contribution days are a great place to
>>>> recruit :)
>>>>
>>>> If one of us that can assign our own reviews, is at a contribution day
>>>> we can assign to ourselves. But, that limits it again. Ideally nobody would
>>>> need to be there that has any level.
>>>>
>>>> I don’t claim to have the answers, but I have a few possibilities:
>>>> 1. Better documentation on how to do your first review. I think Chip,
>>>> you were going to refresh your great post about that - time willing of
>>>> course.
>>>> 2. A ‘how to run a theme review section at contribution day’ section.
>>>> 3. Maybe a pool of past themes we can give new reviewers to ‘cut their
>>>> teeth’? This could also even be a test theme. Maybe to level the playing
>>>> field one that covers the basics you should know. Possibly a cool sub
>>>> project? A doing_it_wrong theme.
>>>>
>>>> I’m sure I am missing some great ideas, hence interested what people
>>>> think. I’d love to find ways we can make this process better and get more
>>>> contributors as a result.
>>>>
>>>> What do people think?
>>>>
>>>> Tammie Lister
>>>>
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