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We are a group of volunteers who review and approve themes submitted to be included in the official WordPress Theme directory.

We do license, security, and code quality reviews.

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This week’s agenda

We have a lot to talk about this week. We will have our usual meeting on Tuesday, 18:00 UTC. To try and keep to an hour it’s best to focus our conversations.

Main topic: Theme directory

That in mind, lets have the main topic as the theme directory. To recap: https://make.wordpress.org/themes/2015/05/29/proposal-curated-theme-directory/

What would be good to aim for would be a second proposal based on the comments in the post and discussions in the meeting. That way we can look to solidify what we want to do.

Sub topics:

There are a few other topics we should try and keep time for:

Content creation

Snippet library

We can the week after talk about the idea thread. Lets divide the topics and really focus our conversations.

Tammie 7:04 pm on May 30, 2015

Adding related ideas to the theme directory that should also be discussed when talking about it:

https://make.wordpress.org/themes/2015/05/29/theme-review-team-input-and-ideas-thread/#comment-41628

https://make.wordpress.org/themes/2015/05/29/theme-review-team-input-and-ideas-thread/#comment-41684

https://make.wordpress.org/themes/2015/05/29/theme-review-team-input-and-ideas-thread/#comment-41685

https://make.wordpress.org/themes/2015/05/29/theme-review-team-input-and-ideas-thread/#comment-41731

We also need to talk about a theme directory survey and user testing. I am happy to lead this and work with @melchoyce assuming she’s up for that. Mel has already done a lot of good work for us. This would be apart from the one I’m working on for reviewers and those having themes reviewed. The idea is we really find out what people want from a theme directory.
- Mel Choyce 8:46 pm on May 30, 2015
  
  I’m game. 🙂

Welcome to the Themes team!

Handbooks and review requirements

Coding standards and plugins

Code Packages

Communication