Title: Agenda for 2017 February 28
Author: Ulrich
Published: February 25, 2017

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 [  ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/grapplerulrich/) [Ulrich](https://profiles.wordpress.org/grapplerulrich/)
7:11 pm _on_ February 25, 2017     
Tags: [themereview ( 62 )](https://make.wordpress.org/themes/tags/themereview/)

# Agenda for 2017 February 28

The Theme Review Team holds a meeting weekly and we encourage all members to attend.

Channel: **[#themereview](https://make.wordpress.org/themes/tags/themereview/)**
| Time: **[Tuesday at 18:00 UTC](https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20170228T1800)
18:00 UTC**

Topics:

## Team Representatives

[Matt has asked us](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/themereview/p1487880321012441)
to choose three representatives from the Theme Review Team to meet with him to discuss
the future of the theme directory. He wants to make sure the tech changes for the
pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that
can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features
to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming
language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.
org Plugin Directory [https://wordpress.org/plugins/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/)
or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party. / theme directories are in line 
with what the moderation plans are.

We would like to suggest that [@greenshady](https://profiles.wordpress.org/greenshady/),
[@poena](https://profiles.wordpress.org/poena/) and [@grapplerulrich](https://profiles.wordpress.org/grapplerulrich/)
would be the three representatives.

Let us know if there are any objections.

## Community Summit 2017

In the last meeting we started to discuss topics for the [community summit](https://make.wordpress.org/themes/2017/02/18/community-submit-2017/).
A list of topics can be found below. The list of topics may change as we get nearer
to the event.

 * How we improve the leadership of the TRT team? For example the forums team has
   one or two team reps and then moderators who have access to further moderations
   tools.
 * How can we encourage and enable more people to lead new projects?
 * What is the vision and goals of the team?
 * What is the future of the theme review team, can we change it to become the Theme
   Team and be more involved in theme related activities like improving the theme
   directory or the theme developers handbook?
 * A set of good slides on the introduction to theme reviewing that can be used 
   for contributor days
 * Improving the documentation so that it is clearer and easier to understand
 * Work on improving the theme author and reviewer experience by analysing the whole
   theme review process.

 * Improving the review process and focus on quality and good codes
 * How we can encourage creative designs and how to stop more of copy themes which
   can just be child themeChild theme A Child Theme is a customized theme based 
   upon a Parent Theme. It’s considered best practice to create a child theme if
   you want to modify the CSS of your theme. [https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/advanced-topics/child-themes/](https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/advanced-topics/child-themes/).
 * Future of the theme review theme and making it smoother and faster

Now the question is who should/can attend the community summit. Please post in the
comments below if you can and would like to attend to the community summit. Not 
everyone can attend because of the size limit of the venue.

## Current Projects

 * [Mentoring program](https://make.wordpress.org/themes/2017/02/11/mentor-program-2017/),
   lead by [@thinkupthemes](https://profiles.wordpress.org/thinkupthemes/)
 * [FAQ page](https://make.wordpress.org/themes/2017/02/08/starting-a-frequently-asked-questions-page/),
   lead by [@thinkupthemes](https://profiles.wordpress.org/thinkupthemes/)
 * [Requirements refresh](https://make.wordpress.org/themes/2017/02/21/new-project-rewriting-the-requirements/),
   lead by [@poena](https://profiles.wordpress.org/poena/)
 * [@nikeo](https://profiles.wordpress.org/nikeo/) is getting ready to restart the
   Review Flow project to improve the review experience for theme authors and reviewers.

If you have any topics, then please reply to this post and include the topic, along
with a brief description of what you would like to discuss.

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 2.   [Emil Uzelac](https://profiles.wordpress.org/emiluzelac/)  7:32 pm _on_ February
     25, 2017
 3.  This should be great!
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 5.   [WPDevHQ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/wpdevhq/)  10:20 pm _on_ February 25,
     2017
 6.  I second the nominations for the representatives
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 8.   [acosmin](https://profiles.wordpress.org/acosmin/)  2:09 pm _on_ February 26,
     2017
 9.  Shouldn’t at least one of the representatives be a person which is in no way related
     with admin decision making. An author perhaps, someone who’s submitting themes
     regularly and knows how the queue works from the other side 🙂
 10. I first saw matt’s comment on wptavern, on an article about Zerif Lite. Maybe 
     the guys from themeisle would like to nominate one of their members. I feel like
     they could represent most of the theme authors.
 11. Don’t get me wrong, but if 3 admins are nominated, they most likely have the same
     opinion on everything related to requirements & the theme directory.
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      *  [Ulrich](https://profiles.wordpress.org/grapplerulrich/)  2:32 pm _on_ February
        26, 2017
      * Both [@greenshady](https://profiles.wordpress.org/greenshady/) and [@poena](https://profiles.wordpress.org/poena/)
        submit themes, I submitted a theme last year to the repo.
      * I think we may be connecting Matt’s comment on WP Tavern and his request to
        meet with three representatives when there is no direct connection.
      * Personally, I try to not contradict other key reviewers as I think we need 
        to consistent but it does not mean we have the same opinions.
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         -  [Ionut Neagu](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ionutn/)  10:29 am _on_ February
           28, 2017
         - I think that the list of representatives is good, however having somebody
           among the key reviewers with a different background/experience ( more product/
           marketing ) I think is a point that we can consider, is always better to
           look from both sides, what users really want and what we consider best for
           them, current rules or current tags aren’t really considering what people
           are searching/expecting from what I see.
         - I was reading PostStatus newsletter and tavern comments and I think is helpful
           to try to keep things to the point, previewer is an issue, I agree, however
           while I was happy to fix the reading setting which was wrong, moving stuff
           from the theme in a pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing
           a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can 
           extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress
           plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly
           with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory 
           [https://wordpress.org/plugins/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/) or can 
           be cost-based plugin from a third-party., it was a completely useless thing,
           not sure you, but I felt ashamed to ask the developers to spend their time
           breaking their code and copy pasting it, just to comply with a rule that
           isn’t making sense in this context.
         - Also fixing demo data, unless we add support for plugins is useless, zerif
           in our case or shopisle, won’t look better unless previewer won’t have woocommerce
           + required plugins activated.
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            *  [Carolina Nymark](https://profiles.wordpress.org/poena/)  5:25 pm _on_
              February 28, 2017
            * I know we have mentioned having plugins installed before, but on the 
              other hand, you can’t require plugins.
               I’ve asked Otto for an update
              but I think the work on previewer has stranded. We need a project lead
              and people willing to work on it.
            * It is difficult if not impossible to get a real insight to what end-users
              want. So we should try to cater for as many types of themes as possible.
            * The last time we changed the tags we had the most common search terms
              in mind.
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 14.  [Carolina Nymark](https://profiles.wordpress.org/poena/)  6:43 am _on_ March 
     6, 2017
 15. Oh and yes I will be in Paris.

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