[theme-reviewers] Payment Option for Theme Reviews

[Srikanth Koneru]

Why not make the theme authors do a pre-review themself?
Before uploading, they have to confirm for ex:

License of all images/third party resources has be mentioned and
source/license link provided (yes/no)
No js/css other than style.css has been hardcoded in header.php (yes/no)
wp_head() is placed right before </head> (yes/no)
etc

We can have a big list and make the theme authors check and upload?



On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 2:52 AM, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me> wrote:

> ​Just had a nice chat with Jen on Skype and here are some suggestions:
>
> With the help of few volunteers, we need to go back and look at reviews
> from the past year to identify the errors that we catch most often.
>
> Once we got this information in we could then incorporate into Theme Check
> (or similar) and *automate*.
>
> We will be looking into smaller and basic errors, nothing to complex, or
> issues that require special handling.
>
> Second:
>
> #1 priority themes should be reviewed in right away, not tomorrow or day
> after, how about if we do the same for #2?
>
> For #3 and #4 priorities to be reviewed within 48hrs?
>
> This will clear-out the backlog and the process will be much faster.
>
> Admins would still carry out their duties and reviewers as well.
>
> Thanks,
> Emil
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 4:00 PM, Thomas from ThemeZee <
>> contact at themezee.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Relating to the admin bottle-neck: What about appointing trusted /
>>> experienced theme reviewers? They can perform second reviews of the
>>> "approved themes but not marked live" list. Since they are experienced they
>>> will find issues quickly. They should not be allowed to mark themes as
>>> live, but are able to reopen tickets.
>>>
>>
>> For what it's worth, anybody can do that right now. You don't have to be
>> "assigned" a ticket to leave comments on it. You don't need to reopen it to
>> tell an author there are problems you've found.
>>
>> I honestly never liked the assigning of tickets in the first place. It's
>> too rigid, IMO. I realize that we need order and fairness, but the
>> assignment system seems to imply that there is only one reviewer per theme,
>> and that's absolutely not the case. If you want to go pick a waiting theme
>> at random, find problems in it, and post them in that ticket, then by all
>> means, do so. A problem discovered but not posted helps nobody.
>>
>> There's nothing preventing anybody from reviewing any theme they want at
>> any time, just by leaving comments on a ticket to tell a theme author about
>> the issues. If a theme is fully good by the time admins get to it, then
>> it's quicker all around, no? Okay, it's more disorderly. But we're all
>> adults; we can deal with a little disorder.
>>
>> -Otto
>>
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