[theme-reviewers] Frequent Updates

[Trent Lapinski]

Most of our themes are on the same framework as well, so we typically push core changes to all of our themes. Of which we have 14+ now that we regularly maintain with millions of downloads. We've regularly been pushing updates 1-4 times a month for 3 years now through a release schedule. 

This has been debated before, and no policy was ever put in place.

Why is this suddenly an issue again?

If it's really that big a deal we can move to a biweekly schedule, but it just means more issues per ticket. This doesn't actually reduce how much time it takes to review. This solves nothing. 

For an open source community, this sure doesn't feel very "open" anymore if we can't even maintain our themes in a timely manor.

--Trent Lapinski
CyberChimps.com
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> On Jul 26, 2014, at 12:59 PM, Bryan Hadaway <bhadaway at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Keep in mind also that we at CyberChimps have a HUGE community with millions of downloads, therefore we receive a ton of bug reports.
> 
> There are so many variables these days between OS, browser, browser version, computers, mobile devices, WordPress version, plugins etc. etc. etc. that I would assume there are many issues in most themes in the repo now, they just don't happen to have as many people using those themes in which to discover and report these edge-case issues as quickly.
> 
> Development is closely aligned with our support department and we streamline customer support issues that turn out not to be just isolated issues into theme fixes very quickly.
> 
> That's just our natural workflow, and it's constant and neverending.
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