[theme-reviewers] Frequent Updates

Sat Jul 26 02:13:51 UTC 2014

I'm OK with weekly releases (4 releases a month) if they're actually bug
fixes and/or enhancements.  I wouldn't knock anyone for that.  I really
wouldn't want to set some type of "time rule" either.

This is nothing the admins have discussed.  Other than the thread I
mentioned, this is the first I'm hearing of this too.  I just wanted to
clarify what I believe Emil was getting at.

What some of us have observed are probably a small fraction of people who
might be submitting some updates for the sole purpose of upping their
download counts.   If we start noticing a trends like this, it's going to
be a problem.  I believe Emil wanted to preemptively help stop some of
these types of problems before they got started.

On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 8:17 PM, Srikanth Koneru <tskk79 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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