Opened 5 months ago
#7801 new enhancement
Plugin submission: Improve "Waiting time" message,
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Description
In the "Add your plugin" page https://wordpress.org/plugins/developers/add/
There is a message that shows the amount of plugins awaiting first review and the current estimated waiting time (expressed in the number of waiting days).
There are two suggested changes to this messages.
Wait time
This is an example of the current standard message:
The current wait for an initial review is at least 12 days.
The Plugin Review Team has noticed that some people are confused by the wait time, because they don't understand that the wait time is the current estimated wait time for a new plugin, not their position in the queue, and not a guaranteed wait time (as it can fluctuate depending on the number of submissions and reviews done).
The suggestion is to change it to a fixed and clearer value that also makes it easy to check your position in the queue.
At this point, all plugins that have been submitted before 1 October 2024 have received an initial response to their submission.
Being that date the date of the oldest submission minus 36 hours (to make it the day before the oldest submission and also adding some additional margin to avoid confusion about timezones)
If this time is bellow 8 days, as the fluctuation can be higher and to avoid time to response expectations that may not be accurate, the message may be:
At this point, all plugins submitted in the last 10 days have received an initial response to their submission.
Additional information regarding the queues
This message shows the queue of plugins pending first review, but there is an additional queue that affects the review time, the queue of plugins currently in review.
This information is posted in the team updates https://make.wordpress.org/updates/tag/plugins/ and display it here can give additional information on the status of the queues.
The proposal is to show an additional paragraph at the end with this information.
Besides the first review queue, there are currently 2256 plugins in the review process. 2128 are waiting for a response from the author, and 107 are waiting for a response from the reviewer.
As getting detailed stats might be too much, just the first phrase if fine too.
Complete example of the new message
Queue longer than 8 days
Currently there are 256 plugins awaiting first review.
At this point, all plugins that have been submitted before 1 October 2024 have received an initial response to their submission.
Besides the first review queue, there are currently 2256 plugins in the review process. 2128 are waiting for a response from the author, and 107 are waiting for a response from the reviewer.
Queue under 8 days
Currently there are 42 plugins awaiting first review.
At this point, all plugins submitted in the last 10 days have received an initial response to their submission.
Besides the first review queue, there are currently 2256 plugins in the review process. 2128 are waiting for a response from the author, and 107 are waiting for a response from the reviewer.