Stats!
There are 119 new tickets waiting for review. 64 themes were reviewed in the last 7 days.
Of those 64 reviews, 44 were approved, and 20 were not-approved.
What we’ve been up to:
First, we’re trying something different with Make/Themes. Due to some community feedback regarding the ease (or lack thereof) of finding the official communication channels for the Theme Team, we’re testing out a static front pageStatic Front Page A WordPress website can have a dynamic blog-like front page, or a “static front page” which is used to show customized content. Typically this is the first page you see when you visit a site url, like wordpress.org for example. for Make/Themes, that includes more information about the Theme team, and prominent links to our communication channels.
We’ve been discussing support for Themes, which has led to a Support Team-led discussion about tools needed for Theme developers to provide better support on the WPORG forums.
We also had a discussion on clarifying the guidelines with respect to screenshot images for Themes designed to use a custom/featured static front page.
Things we’re slacking on:
I’m behind on drafting a review checklist. I’ll be on top of that, shortly
We owe Siobhan a response on what to include in the Theme handbooks regarding Theme review. Emil and I are still discussing that one, and we’ll follow up this week.
The admins are struggling with finding a consistent way to ensure that the manual TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/./Extend synchronization takes place in a timely manner. So, that’s something that we’ll continue to work on.