[theme-reviewers] how small can an update be? ;)

[Justin Tadlock]

Keep in mind that theme authors don't have access to quickly do these types
of things with SVN like they would if they were updating plugins.  If the
theme author isn't using a version control system, they might think this is
the way to do it.  Maybe recommend GitHub to them.  At least ask them why
they're submitting these types of updates first.

I have seen plugin authors attempt to artificially inflate their download
count by doing these types of updates.  I'm hoping this is something that
we're not seeing on the theme repo now.

Like Chip said, it might be best to just use a little common sense and ask
the author to combine updates.



On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 7:05 AM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:

> We have essentially an honor system for such things: basically, use common
> sense. IMHO it is fully within the prerogative of a Reviewer to ask a
> developer to combine updates if the Reviewer believes such minor updates
> are happening too frequently.
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 6:46 AM, carolina poena <myazalea at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Maybe  I'll recieve some hating for this but  that's OK; I mean, prio 1
>> on "Code reformatting: Changed spaces to tabs"  and "fixing casing on class
>> names"?
>> Sure it's a very fast review but when the previous update for the same
>> theme was 7 days ago, and another update 4 days before that, one week
>> before that and so on,  those could easily(?) have been merged into one
>> update and lessened our workload.
>> Yes you know who you are ;)
>>
>> I feel like my time is better spent on themes that have waited 3 weeks
>> for a first review rather than copy pasting "diff review, no issues found"
>> for non critical updates x number of times a week ;)
>>
>>
>>
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