[theme-reviewers] Contribution day pack and resources for theme reviews

Sat Jun 21 12:12:01 UTC 2014

Hi Chip

The last meet up focused on walking through how to set up a dev environment as last time (at the CD) we spent a while doing that, it ate into the time quite a bit. The organisers have posted this on the Wordcamp website too. Hopefully this should give us a head start, however there might be some stragglers: http://2014.manchester.wordcamp.org/setting-up-your-machine-for-contributor-day/

I’ll be making a few points to the folks in advance as I have learnt quite a bit just from getting the emails via this list. Especially the part about not closing a ticket until after a minimum of 1 week of no feedback from the theme author. And if the feedback has been received to work with the author to get the theme reviewed completely. Obviously though things may carry on after the CD which is potentially an issue due to peoples time constraints. I get your point there. I’ll do my best and hopefully things will work out.

Regards

Morgan Feeney
Lead Designer
info at morganfeeney.com | 07984 476605
www.morganfeeney.com

On 21 Jun 2014, at 13:03, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:

> Hi Morgan,
> 
> Given the current state of the queue, you should have your pick. All I ask is that any tickets that get assigned for a Contributor Day get put fully through the review process. 
> 
> I'm not sure exactly what your plans for the CD are, but here's one way I'd envision a really useful one:
> 
> 1. Prerequisite: everyone has a fresh, hosted or local WordPress installation ready and available to use for Theme Review.
> 2. 30-60 minutes: walk everyone through how to set up a Review environment, and how to join the TRT
> 3. Request/claim a Priority #3/4 review ticket (you can show them where to request, but if the person leading the CD has Reviewer privileges, you can just assign yourself one to expedite the process - or as we discussed before, just request one the day before, to be used for the CD)
> 4. Have all participants install the Theme from the selected ticket.
> 5. 30-60 minutes: walk through the review process for a new Theme
> 6. Request/claim a Priority #1 review ticket
> 7. 10-15 minutes: walk through review process for a Theme update
> 
> The key to making it useful as a group exercise is having everyone install the Theme, and review it together. Help them poke through the files and verify licenses, look at ThemeURI/AuthorURI and make sure they're appropriate, look at header.php/footer.php/functions.php code and look for issues - basically, spend a long time in the code, before turning to Theme Check and the TUT.
> 
> I will do my best to try to find some free time in the evenings this week to rewrite my guide to reviewing Themes.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Chip
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 6:29 AM, Morgan Feeney <info at morganfeeney.com> wrote:
> Hi Guys
> 
> Not a bad idea.
> 
> I would like to take this opportunity to ask the review admins if they could allocate some themes ready for the Contributor day taking place in Manchester UK on 29th June UK time. I remember at the last contributor day I discussed this idea with Chip and he mentioned I gave a heads-up for the next one so themes could be ready to be allocated and done quickly as a small team of us will be ready and waiting to contribute. 
> 
> I’ll be guiding people through the process of setting people up on the mailing list, and requesting themes for review. Although I haven’t put any themes through I’ve been through the process up to the point where I closed a ticket after reviewing and submitting my comments (oops) instead of leaving it open for the theme dev to get back to me (lesson learnt there).
> 
> So hey there Chip! Can we do this?
> 
> Regards
>  
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> 
> Morgan Feeney
> Lead Designer
> info at morganfeeney.com | 07984 476605
> www.morganfeeney.com
> 
> On 21 Jun 2014, at 11:55, Mario Peshev <mario at peshev.net> wrote:
> 
>> I've set something like that for WordCamp Porto last year: https://gist.github.com/mpeshev/7397609
>> 
>> I was also looking for some starters guide that's acceptable for new contributors - having the gist of everything plus handy links around.
>> 
>> 
>> Mario Peshev
>> WordPress Architect and Consultant
>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/mpeshev
>> http://peshev.net
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 12:43 AM, John Wilson <mail at johnwilsononline.com> wrote:
>> Hi Tammie,
>> 
>> I agree. I've only managed a couple of reviews so far and have kind of being winging it as I go along. I've made a couple of errors along the way, part of the learning curve I guess, like closing tickets too soon. Luckily this has been cleared up in recent messages so know what I'm doing now.
>> 
>> I didn't think it was easy to find details of how to get started, the process and the correct format reviews should be delivered when first starting out. I relied (and still do) on Chip's write up from 2011. This said to close the ticket, not mentioning allowing for a developer response, hence my mistake first time around.
>> 
>> I think there's great help out there if you can find it, but an up to date, central hub for the theme review process and some solid guidelines & resources would really help, especially on Contributor days so new theme reviewers can quickly & easily get to grips with the process in the few hours they have together with other reviewers.
>> 
>> Once I have a few more reviews under my belt, I would happily volunteer some of my time to help work on such a resource alongside any other volunteers.
>> 
>> See you at the Manchester WordCamp & contributor day hopefully.
>> 
>> John
>> 
>> Sent from my iPad
>> 
>> > On 20 Jun 2014, at 19:29, Tammie Lister <karmatosed at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > I've now lead a few contribution days for themes and I think one thing that would really help would be some kind of pack and resources. I may be totally off track and not seeing this somewhere, if I am wrong and this exists please let me know as that would be great.
>> >
>> > From what I can see, the information is around it's just in a lot of places.
>> >
>> > Things we may want to have on hand are also a collection of themes people could jump into. Some way that this can happen without a reviewer present. Just thinking out loud, I'm sure there are a number of things we could have ready as a pack for contribution day.
>> >
>> > What do people think of having a resource / section dedicated to this?
>> >
>> > Regards
>> > Tammie Lister
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