[theme-reviewers] Frequent Updates

[Chip Bennett]

If you're pushing out meaningful updates, then nothing said here applies to
you.


On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Trent Lapinski <trent at cyberchimps.com>
wrote:

> 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
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > 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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