[theme-reviewers] Frequent Updates

Srikanth Koneru tskk79 at gmail.com
Sat Jul 26 01:17:00 UTC 2014


There should be no time gap rule at all, Theme authors need not have to
wait to release their next substantial update because of some arbitrary
time limit.


On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 6:42 AM, Trent Lapinski <trent at cyberchimps.com>
wrote:

> What about biweekly updates?
>
> We need some kind of structure that we can agree on.
>
> Radically deciding on a Friday night to change everyone's release
> schedules is a little drastic is it not? I thought this was an open source
> community? How is this open source if I'm limited to how much I can change
> the code I submit? Sounds pretty closed to me.
>
> It's not like this policy is even going to be enforceable let alone reduce
> tickets. This is simply a result of more theme authors and companies, which
> is what the WordPress Foundation wanted. Now that there's more of us
> submitting regularly suddenly we have to discontinue our release schedules,
> and no longer be able to maintain our themes?
>
> I know you admins have a lot on your plates, but limiting the communities
> contributions is counterintuitive is it not?
>
> --Trent Lapinski
> CyberChimps.com
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jul 25, 2014, at 5:30 PM, Srikanth Koneru <tskk79 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I add new skin every week and try to be resource neutral by reviewing more
> than I submit.
> Last week you were all dead set on avoiding subjective matters saying
> trying to judge those matters are a waste of your time and this week you
> drive straight into it.
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 5:45 AM, Justin Tadlock <justin at justintadlock.com>
> wrote:
>
>> This was briefly discussed on the mailing list last month.  For
>> reference:
>>
>> http://lists.wordpress.org/pipermail/theme-reviewers/2014-June/thread.html#18864
>>
>> Otto made it pretty clear that frequent and meaningless updates are not
>> allowed, so I don't think that should be a problem.  This is something
>> that's also done with plugins.
>>
>> Basically, the idea though is to just add updates when there's something
>> of significance like a new feature or a bug fix.  Don't send updates to us
>> when you're changing code formatting or updating your documentation.
>>
>> If someone is sending in weekly bug fixes, then I don't think we're doing
>> a very good job with the initial reviews.  If you're sending in weekly
>> enhancements, what more could you possibly be adding?
>>
>> I do agree with Trent that it is a healthy dev strategy for some
>> people/companies to have, but we also have to balance that with the facts
>> of the situation.  The situation is that we do human-powered theme reviews
>> and still lack the manpower to handle them all.  If we're constantly having
>> to go through the priority update queue, it leaves little time for reviews
>> on new themes.  I don't like the situation, but this is where we're at.  I
>> might be starting to get into another discussion, so I'll just stop there.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 7:07 PM, <tskk79 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry too subjective, where is the definition of how small is too small.
>>>  don't you guys have better things to do :)
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