[theme-reviewers] Payment Option for Theme Reviews

[Emil Uzelac]

@Stephen,

If I may, what makes you say that your reviews are not valuable or that you
are not trusted and also where are you getting with "*I believe I am quiet
experienced on theme review*"? I did not understand the last part sorry.

@Srikanth, that would never be approved by foundation and not really an
option.

P.S. We are off-topic as usual :(
P.P.S. https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ 108 new tickets are waiting for
review.

Thanks,
Emil


On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Srikanth Koneru <tskk79 at gmail.com> wrote:

> A doing it all wrong theme for better training of new reviewers is needed,
> then we will have fully vetted themes waiting to be live, that will weed
> out joy riders too :)
>
> But the question is, is my suggestion still pay for play even tough I am
> not getting the play? Can't it be considered a donation?
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 12:45 AM, Stephen Cui <scui2005 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Pay-to-play is definitely not an option. But how can we improve the
>> process? I was an active reviewer before the incentive starts and started
>> again after the incentive ends. I stopped again as I feel that my
>> contribution is not valued. If my review cannot be trusted, why am I even
>> reviewing any themes?
>>
>> I believe I am quiet experienced on theme review. I know there are
>> reviewers that are new and some reviews are low-quality. The problem is we
>> need to wait 3-4 weeks for an admin to point out the problem. This adds
>> frustration for everyone.
>>
>> Something has to be done. Many of us are tried to make suggestions. Two
>> days ago, I suggested Experience Review option. I also suggested if WP
>> Foundation can hire a full-time Admin. If the option is not possible, let
>> us find other option. I wish we can have more open discussion about the
>> solution.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Stephen
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Srikanth Koneru <tskk79 at gmail.com>
>>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> But the bottle neck is admin time availability.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I grant you that admin time is a problem, but additionally, the fact
>>> that admins have to second guess and redo most reviews is also kind of a
>>> problem.
>>>
>>> I just went and looked at four "approved" themes in the admin queue. Two
>>> of them had issues that I noticed immediately as being problems.
>>> Big-code-issues that prevent me from going live with them; not just look
>>> and feel type things. The other two I marked live. Now, small sample, I
>>> grant you, but if this holds true throughout this queue, then that's about
>>> 40 themes I'll have to return-to-sender instead of marking live.
>>>
>>> I can see why the current admins would find this a bit frustrating.
>>>
>>> What can help make it such that reviewers are actually doing the entire
>>> review before approving themes? Or is there a focus problem? In the cases
>>> I've seen, it's been functionality issues that are the stoppers at this
>>> stage, not necessarily look-and-feel issues. Most reviews I've been reading
>>> over the last 10 minutes pointed out menu problems, CSS problems, things
>>> like the front-page functionality not working properly, but missed (to me)
>>> big obvious ones like saving defaults to the database or requiring the use
>>> of a plugin. This is the sort of things the admins find and I grant you
>>> that you have to look at the code for them, but I don't think the admins
>>> should need to be second-reviewing everybody's reviews here, but that is
>>> what is happening and why it takes so long.
>>>
>>> Should we be assigning reviewers in pairs? Two reviewers per ticket? I
>>> dunno.
>>>
>>> -Otto
>>>
>>>
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