How about a separate team for this kind of stuff 
. Instead of growing the current team and all of you doing the same thing (no matter what it is, reviews or security issues) have 2 teams, the current one just for review and the guys that come along from now handle the security issues. Just a thought, by the way Iām ok with any review time. Itās all worth it! Thank you!
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could not it be done like this ?
1 - bundled plugins should be uploaded seperately. user should download them seperately and install together with theme. next time plugin is updated, author will upload only plugins.
2 - When uploading theme, author should state which plugins are included and provide the necessary extended licenses. User who bought this theme, will directly download plugin and install it. Next time when plugin is updated, author will not need to update anything.
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All bundled plugins in themes should be update-able.
Such issues cause a huge pressure on Review team, major delays for developers that donāt have this plugins bundled. And we donāt know when this will happen again. In a month or two? Or may be next weekā¦
Bundling Plugins inside themes should be reworked.
YOU SHOULD review HTML theme in 3 days and WP theme in 7 days 
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I can imagine the work that had to be done related to the security issue so we will wait a bit more. Take care
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Agree with Cubell.
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Thanks god they back 
A million times like.
Is there any drawback to have bundled plugins - yes there is!
I miss good old days when getting themes approved in 2-3 days. I guess this shows envato couldnāt make itās review team grow at the same amount as the products submitted increases to sustain the same reviewing process quality. 14 day is way too much, i hope it gets back to at least 1 week max in a short time.
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Weāre good with the waiting, although itās much longer than we build a WP theme, sometime it take 1 month to wait and get accepted (included fix stuffs).
But, with our expectation, please give more detail about the review for items, it will worth for our time, your time.
The way reviewers throw the reviews show that they donāt have enough time to review. Just give the general information doesnāt help us fix the stuffs faster, it just make us wait longer and longer. (Because the instruction doesnt clear, and we have to fix in blind status).
Also, it raise the problem between the tools reviewers using to review - test theme and how reviewer using it. Something look like theme-check, but much more complicated. But, these tools just suggest the fixes base on āhuman logic - for who created itā, but around the word we have a lot of coding technique where the tools reviewers used doesnāt have in the ālibraryā, and reviewer make us fix it, is it fair?.
In my opinion, why dont you public the tools, ways youāre using to check themes?, itās much better and give the standard for all of authots, it will save time for us, for you to review things on that tools or something?
Thanks!
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Hello There,
Totally agreed with the idea to make things to the public and to the authors which will surely gonna save enough time.
The review team are doing very good job so far, but they need to review the whole item at one time instead of sending the rejections in installments.
Thank You
Finally 14 Days TO Reject My Item 
Exactly! I support you on this. Every review I am asked to fix new things.
Absolutely, there more we understand about the review system then the better for everyone. Reviewers and authors.
what about Psd template, it is too will take the same delay??
This is why I donāt bundle physical plugins. I simply bundle an installer so when an issue comes up like this I simply update the plugin on my CDN. Boom. Simple.
Finally approved yesterday 
Why not hire more reviewers and share between categories. Eg: 10 reviewers for WordPress Themes and others CMS, 5 reviewers for HTML Templates and 3 or 4 for PSDā¦itās just an example
Hope itās truly back to normal. Iām expecting the queue like in the past. I remember that we used to wait for just about 3-4 days 
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