Greetings All! I'm a Brazilian developer speaking in behalf of my team and any other developer who felt abused by the Google's Judging System.
Myself and my team worked very hard for more than 4 months to develop a complex system from scratch for the unstable and bad-documented so called Android Platform. Our team had 8 members, mostly of them (including me) undergraduates. All of us working for free in our free times to make our project come true. But I'm not complaining about that. Probably many other teams faced similar scenarios. So, what happened was: We submitted our application and waited for the Judgment. About one week later I was routine-testing our system and I discovered that it was no longer working. By not working, I mean that you couldn't even start it without getting a java exception and a major crash. After a quick bug tracking, we discovered that we had an issue with our SSL certificate, we over looked its expiration limit. The only ways to solve this were: 1) Recompile the whole system with a new certificate OR 2) Set the client's system time to a date prior to the expiration. We knew that the first choice was totally inviable. So we stick with the second choice: an ugly workaround , I must admit, but a fix. We do not blame Google for this, it was totally our fault. At this time we had a faulty application and no server hit yet. So, we e-mailed Dan Morrill explaining the situation and he replied saying that: "I checked our records and it looks like the judges completed their reviews of your application prior to the certificate expiration. By that I mean that the judges didn't report any problems with your application." Well... That is kind odd, isn't it? How come the Judges reviewed our application if they didn't even could pass the first screen? So we waited. The review deadline came and passed. So we all waited a little more. We finally received the result! Yey! A standard email saying that we failed... Come on!!! So Google in all its kindness resolved that they would show us more info about the judgment. So we received another standard scoring e-mail, with information that didn't mean nothing. Alright Google! Right on! How this judgment process could be remotely fair?! We all worked very hard in our projects. The least Google could do was to give us some feedback. It is not that hard. Just let us see the evaluation log which would explain to us how the process was carried out. I guess it doesn't make any difference for you now. In my opinion, this ADC was a FIASCO, especially for people who relied in Google challenges !!! That's it. Thanks for reading. Fábio Fabris --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Challenge" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-challenge?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
