[theme-reviewers] Tackling long review times

Wed Oct 29 15:56:54 UTC 2014

I don't like the proposal.  While I'm all for getting more reviewers, I'd
never back a plan that required theme authors to also review themes.  Some
people simply want to release free themes to the community and nothing
more.  We don't need any more barriers to entry than we already have.  This
is the sort of thing that might make a gifted developer just say "screw it"
and go build his own theme repository to compete with ours.  Or, for some
theme authors to simply not release awesome themes here because they don't
have the time to contribute to reviews.

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 10:06 AM, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me> wrote:

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> On Wednesday, October 29, 2014, Srikanth Koneru <tskk79 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Inspire others by reviewing a ton of themes :)
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 7:08 PM, myazalea <myazalea at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  I still believe that making it easier for authors to submit higher
>>> quality themes is the way to go.
>>> The guidelines have to be clear. I got fed up after having pretty much
>>> every ticket I reviewed reopened because of things that were not marked as
>>> required.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  Skickat från min Samsung Mobil
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>>> -------- Originalmeddelande --------
>>> Från: Srikanth Koneru
>>> Datum:29-10-2014 14:30 (GMT+01:00)
>>> Till: "Discussion list for WordPress theme reviewers."
>>> Rubrik: Re: [theme-reviewers] Tackling long review times
>>>
>>>  no aggression, just stating the fact :)
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 6:57 PM, Afzaal (ThinkUpThemes) <
>>> wordpress at thinkupthemes.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>  Wow, wasn’t expecting such aggression. Just sharing thoughts Srikanth.
>>> J
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Love to hear your thoughts as mentioned. Do you think it’s beneficial to
>>> end users to have a broken theme and for us to not have this discussion?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *From:* theme-reviewers [mailto:
>>> theme-reviewers-bounces at lists.wordpress.org] *On Behalf Of *Srikanth
>>> Koneru
>>> *Sent:* 29 October 2014 13:24
>>> *To:* Discussion list for WordPress theme reviewers.
>>> *Subject:* Re: [theme-reviewers] Tackling long review times
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The benefits of this are:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ·         Reduce the wait time in the review queue.
>>>
>>> ·         More themes will be reviewed by experienced developers (those
>>> who themselves have developed a theme for acceptance to WP.org
>>>
>>> ·         Help to make the reviewer a better developer.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ·         New Theme – Review 2%. E.g if you are approximately at
>>> position 100, kindly review 2 new themes.
>>>
>>> ·         Theme update – Review 10%. E.g if you are approximately at
>>> position 60, kindly review 6 updates.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Love to hear your thoughts! J
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Afzaal
>>>
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