[theme-reviewers] So many themes are still not live

[Emil Uzelac]

It's all about how much time the volunteer will have. Please don't turn
this into something that is not.

On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Edward Caissie <edward.caissie at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I always wonder why the "value" in giving back to the community always
> seems to be equated to how much time one's efforts are in the spotlight?
>
> I always thought giving back to the community was about "giving" not about
> what you get back for it.
>
> Edward Caissie
> aka Cais.
>
> On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Styled Themes <social at styledthemes.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m thinking that the concern might be that
>> there are times when large batches of themes go live all at once and anyone
>> who just went live on the “New Themes” list will get bumped off quickly.
>>
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>> There are other times when themes are released and some get to be on the
>> first 15 “new theme” listing up to 2 weeks and times when you might be on
>> it for a day or two, only to be bumped off due to yet another large theme
>> release. I was just thinking about this last night because I just had a
>> theme approved and wondering if I will be on the first 15 for a very short
>> moment in time….
>>
>>
>>
>> It does get very discouraging to see a theme of yours get buried so
>> quickly while others get the enjoyment of up to a couple weeks. Considering
>> the amount of time and effort a developer can put into a theme in giving
>> back to the WordPress community, themes going live after approval should be
>> done on a more consistent basis for timed releases and to how many get
>> released each time to make it fair for everyone to enjoy being in the first
>> 15 long enough to justify making themes for the repository. Think about
>> this….if you just got released and currently in the 1st spot and then a
>> day later 20 themes get released (go live), you just got bumped down to
>> page 2 of results, enjoying 1 day of being on the front page first 15.
>>
>>
>>
>> Just my two cents J
>>
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>>
>> Andre
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>> *From:* theme-reviewers [mailto:
>> theme-reviewers-bounces at lists.wordpress.org] *On Behalf Of *Emil Uzelac
>> *Sent:* October-12-14 10:20 AM
>> *To:* Discussion list for WordPress theme reviewers.
>> *Subject:* Re: [theme-reviewers] So many themes are still not live
>>
>>
>>
>> Theme was approved 3 days ago, please be patient :)
>>
>> On Sunday, October 12, 2014, Hardeep Asrani <hardeepasrani at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> I'm pretty sure it's a dumb question, so not sarcasm please, hehe.
>>
>> I was checking out list of tickets marked as approved but not live
>> yet... It's like over 20 newly approved themes are not live... One is
>> there from almost 2 weeks:
>>
>> https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=approved&group=priority&col=id&col=summary&col=reporter&col=owner&col=priority&col=changetime&col=keywords&report=24&order=changetime
>>
>> My theme is: https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/20448 also in
>> the list... So please someone with the privileges to make them live do
>> something and clear some of them one-by-one whenever she/he gets the
>> time :)
>>
>> Sorry for a silly question - but I can't wait to see my first theme live
>> :)
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