The themes review team meeting was held on November 23, 2021, at 15:00 UTC.
These are the meeting notes. The themes team conducts a meeting on the second and fourth Tuesday of the month.
You can read the full transcript on our #themereview channel.
This week’s meeting agendas can be found here. Thank you @kafleg for preparing the agenda.
1. Weekly updates
The themes team published weekly updates about tickets and HelpScout emails. See this week’s updates here.
In the past 7 days,
- 371 tickets were opened
- 364 tickets were closed:
- 358 tickets were made live.
- 32 new Themes were made live.
- 326 Theme updates were made live.
- 0 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
- 6 tickets were not-approved.
- 0 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.
Number of reviewers: 2
2. Voting for themes team representative
There was engaging conversation during the theme reps election. The themes review team decided to have three reps. New themes review team reps are @kafleg, @acosmin, and @Benachi. Thank you to everyone who voted.
We are grateful for this opportunity. We would like to continue with the great work that the previous theme reps had built. We look forward to working with everyone!
3. Open floor
There was a suggestion to limit the number of theme releases per week. It could help increase the exposure for newly approved themes however, there is a concern about the increasing number of themes in the review queue.
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