[theme-reviewers] Contribution days

[Tammie Lister]

To summarise we have a few ways then for a contribution day to go:
- One theme that is reviewed by group together: This has issue of a large
group. At Manchester we had over 11 people - that's too big a group for one
contributor to lead through a review without people loosing interest. This
also relies on someone being able to assign to themselves.
- A small selection of themes (maybe earlier defined) : This poses issue of
how many, prior knowledge.
- Everyone gets one and does review: This has a higher fail rate and could
impact negatively on the submitter.

Whatever we do more work for admins has to stop. I'm very against adding to
your already filled plates.

What about the idea of a theme_doing_it_wrong that could be used to train
people on? Think of it as a test everyone has to pass. I know this would
take effort to create, but could that be worth it? Could this be a way to
get people involved? Or is this a crazy idea that should be dropped?

Tammie Lister

On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me> wrote:

> 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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