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Over the course of the last year, community members from the meta team and the theme review team have been working together, testing new ways to make theme reviews quicker and easier without compromising the quality of themes in the directory. We improved existing tools, added new tools, opened up direct SVN commits, and audited theme review rules. As a result, the average time for themes to be reviewed has decreased:
PeriodAvg Days to ReviewChange2020 January1292021 January6053% Decrease2022 January590% Decrease
Note: Changes in theme upload numbers are not really statistically relevant. What’s next?