Hello everyone. The meeting notes are from the themes review team discussion on July 26, 2022. The themes team meets second and fourth Tuesday of every month at 15:00 UTC.
This week’s meeting agendas can be found here. Thank you @kafleg for preparing the agenda. The meeting facilitator & Notetaker @Benachi. You can read the full transcript on our #themereview channel.
1. Weekly updates
The themes team published weekly updates about tickets and HelpScout emails. Here is the theme statistic for the past 7 days. The most current stats can be found here.
- 412 tickets were opened
- 416 tickets were closed:
- 404 tickets were made live.
- 31 new Themes were made live.
- 373 Theme updates were made live.
- 0 more was approved but is waiting to be made live.
- 12 tickets were not-approved.
- 0 ticket was closed-newer-version-uploaded.
- 404 tickets were made live.
Note: These stats include both the new theme tickets and updated theme tickets as well.
Number of reviewers: 4 (@kafleg, @acosmin, @uxl, @shivashankerbhatta)
Block Themes Stats
- 8 Block themes are live in past 7 days
- 3 Block themes are currently reviewing
- We have 106 Block Themes in the themes repository.
2. Pattern Previews for Themes in the Directory
Brand new pattern preview has been added on the theme directory! Users can check out the patterns before downloading the themes. Both classic and block themes can showcase the patterns on the theme directory.
- Classic theme with patterns – Twenty Twenty-One
- Block theme with patterns – Twenty Twenty-Two
There are several discussions for improving the pattern preview. Any feedback are appreciated.
- Missing support third-pary blocks in the theme patterns preview by @elmastudio
- And prev/next navigation to single pattern view by @bph
- Theme Block Pattern Demo by @courane01
3. Open Floor
@joyously suggested removing themes that cause a fatal error and are no longer compatible. The theme review team will coordinate with the meta team on the following points.
- Find all the themes with the errors
- Send bulk message to them to fix the errors
- Give 1 month time to fix them
- Check themes again after 1 month
- Delist the theme with errors
We discussed the Requires at least requirement. The Requires at least is required in the Stylesheet header, however it is unclear if a theme need to be compatible 2-3 versions back at the time of initial release or when the theme was updated.
We also discussed how hosting Google Fonts locally affect the theme requirements. You can read the whole thread here.
Thank you for participating @colorful-tones @mikachan @poena and @joyously