[theme-reviewers] Tackling long review times

[Srikanth Koneru]

Instead of wasting time monitoring the percentages, its more beneficial to
actually review themes.

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 6:43 PM, Afzaal (ThinkUpThemes) <
wordpress at thinkupthemes.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
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> I just wanted to share some thoughts and hear the thoughts from others on
> possible methods for tackling the long wait time for theme reviews.
> Although long wait times are less of an issue for new themes, I’m more
> concerned with the recent increase in wait times for theme updates. Often
> updates are released to fix issues and in an ideal world it would be great
> to have these reach users quickly.
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> In a recent discussion Tammie applauded SiteOrigin for their commitment in
> allocating 5% of their resources to assist with WordPress.org activities. I
> definitely believe that anyone benefitting financially from WordPress.org
> should in recognition of this opportunity allocate some of their resources
> back to WordPress.org. Anything at all would be beneficial.
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> So here’s my proposal. Any author that submits a theme (either new or
> update) should first complete a review before that theme itself can be
> reviewed.
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> The benefits of this are:
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> ·         Reduce the wait time in the review queue.
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> ·         More themes will be reviewed by experienced developers (those
> who themselves have developed a theme for acceptance to WP.org
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> ·         Help to make the reviewer a better developer.
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> As an initial thought the number of reviews that the author must complete
> will be a percentage based on the number of themes ahead of them in the
> review queue.
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> ·         New Theme – Review 2%. E.g if you are approximately at position
> 100, kindly review 2 new themes.
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> ·         Theme update – Review 10%. E.g if you are approximately at
> position 60, kindly review 6 updates.
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> I know that this is a very rough estimate, and yes the absolute value
> calculated from the percentage will vary as each new review is picked up.
> However, I’d like to think we can be trusted to broadly follow any
> guidelines we may agree upon.
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> Love to hear your thoughts! J
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> Afzaal
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