A meeting was held with the proposed agenda.
The following is the recap of the meeting, you can read the meeting transcript in the slack archives (a Slack account is required).
Updates
In the past seven days:
- 239 tickets were opened
- 238 tickets were closed:
- 222 tickets were made live
- 11 new Themes were made live
- 211 Theme updates were made live
- 10 more were approved but are waiting to be made live
- 16 tickets were not-approved
- 0 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded
- 222 tickets were made live
Removing recommendations page
The current recommendations page in the review handbook had a lot of outdated data, so the team agreed that we should remove it and improve the resource page instead.
Should we separate code quality from license and upselling?
Currently there is no priority in what things should be checked first while doing a theme review.
On the requirements page, licensing and upsell is listed together with code requirements. This can cause confusion.
We want to point out the important issues first, so that issues like missing licenses, and upsell issues are found first and that this can be fixed quickly. Only after this precheck issues are fixed will the review continue.
This is done so that the reviewers don’t waste valuable time, and can review more tickets quickly. We hope this will improve on the queue length a bit.
Should Requirements that are checked with Theme Check remain listed on a separate page?
No decision was reached about this issue. For now the Theme Check page will be on a separate page.
Open floor
There was a suggestion to encourage building a stronger community between and with the theme authors.
A proposal was made to add a new meeting that would revolve the block-based themes. As mentioned by @kjellr:
There’s already a lot of full-site editing work going on, and there are already experimental reference documents for block-based themes. It’s important for the TRT and the theme community to keep up to date on this work, and to develop a clear communication loop with the Gutenberg teams.
A new meeting regarding block based themes will happen next Wednesday at 16:00 UTC.
Tonight we’ll have a triage meeting at 18:00 UTC, going through meta tickets and other open-source issues.