[theme-reviewers] Payment Option for Theme Reviews

Thu Jul 31 21:04:14 UTC 2014

i think ever this idea can extend.

a reviewer must review two theme at the time, one for free, one for money

in this way both author that want to submit and update his/her theme will
be happy and also free theme queue will be reviewed.

On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 1:20 AM, Michael Hebenstreit <michael at mhthemes.com>
wrote:

> Hi Chip,
>
> yep - please don't get me wrong. I didn't want to say that you're not
> doing your job! And as I said in my first email, it's fully understandable
> that the review queue has very little priority in most people's life.
> Everyone usually has much more important things to do.
>
> I just meant that if this was a company, it would be quite ineffective.
> And that we might need to find a new "incentive" to give more people a
> reason to contribute in this field. I think that would solve all problems.
> But if the decision from "above" is that these kind of things are not
> allowed, then we can't do anything about it, just wait for more nice people
> with time to do a review. :-)
>
> Cheers,
>  Michael
>
> Am 31.07.2014 um 22:43 schrieb Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>:
>
> But the review queue *isn't* our job - not for the reviewers or for the
> admins. It doesn't put a roof over our families' heads or food on our
> table. And quite frankly, speaking for myself, I simply can't afford or
> justify putting in the 10-20 hours a week it was taking to keep things
> under better control.
>
> The review incentive program worked, and worked well. Unfortunately, it
> wasn't possible to keep it from becoming a pay-to-play situation, and it
> had to be discontinued. Thus far, nothing has been identified to take its
> place, and we have gotten zero direction from anyone regarding what we can
> do to replace the review incentive program.
>
> Despite its flaws, the review incentive program worked:
>
> <QueueTrends.png>
>
> The review queue disappeared (except for a peak around Christmas, as
> always happens). And the rule that reopened tickets didn't count drove down
> the number of tickets getting reopened. Most impressively, the queue time
> decreased even as the input (tickets opened) increased. Now, as you can
> see, the review queue was nowhere near as bad as it was before we
> implemented the incentive program, but it is clearly trending in the wrong
> direction.
>
> But in the end, this is a volunteer activity. Developers volunteer to
> submit free Themes. Reviewers volunteer their time for free to review and
> approve those Themes.
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Michael Hebenstreit <michael at mhthemes.com
> > wrote:
>
>> As stated before, unfortunately not. But as stated before, it seems
>> volunteer work doesn't work well anymore and it might be the time to think
>> about new solutions. Don't get me wrong, I don't have a problem with
>> waiting a few weeks for theme approval and I fully respect the work of all
>> reviewers and admins. But when we are honest and rational, we have to admit
>> that this doesn't work well. If this would be a company and the review
>> queue would be client issues, we wouldn't do our job very well. :-)
>>
>>
>> Am 31.07.2014 um 22:04 schrieb Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me>:
>>
>> Have you helped with the queue yet?
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Michael Hebenstreit <
>> michael at mhthemes.com> wrote:
>>
>>> That doesn't help the review queue and also won't mark themes as live.
>>> :-)
>>>
>>>
>>> Am 31.07.2014 um 21:58 schrieb Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me>:
>>>
>>> And you can get paid for reviews too, just go to
>>> http://jobs.wordpress.net/ and problem solved ;)
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Michael Hebenstreit <
>>>> michael at mhthemes.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> At the moment it seems that a lot of unexperienced reviewers are being
>>>>> motivated on WordCamps around the world. They review a few themes during
>>>>> the contribution day and then it's over (in most cases).
>>>>>
>>>>> WordCamps aren't recruitment drives. Those sessions should be entirely
>>>> for the benefit of the people there, not for any other purpose. Our goal at
>>>> WordCamps, overall, is to educate and inform (and meet and greet and BBQ
>>>> and so on).
>>>>
>>>> If showing somebody how the theme review works and having them do one
>>>> for hands on experience helps them in any way, then that was the point.
>>>> Whether the result is useful to us or not is irrelevant, we only care
>>>> whether or not it was useful for that person.
>>>>
>>>> Wordcamps are for the Wordcampers. If they decide to continue
>>>> reviewing, great. If not, that's okay too.
>>>>
>>>> -Otto
>>>>
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