[theme-reviewers] Payment Option for Theme Reviews

[Srikanth Koneru]

@Trent, Who are those 2 peeps, maybe admins will consider them

@Emil, Sad to hear that.


On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 1:13 AM, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me> wrote:

> @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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