That's so great! :)
> On Aug 22, 2014, at 3:44 PM, Dan Garry <dga...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > On Wednesday, Katherine, Tomasz and I met with Joe Castorena from Google’s > Android Play Partnerships team. I’ve split up the most relevant information > into a few separate emails, to keep the discussion on each separate point > focussed. > > Joe informed us of the process for getting featured in Google Play. The long > and short of it is that once we decide we’ve got a build that’s worth > featuring, we upload it to Google Play and contact Joe. There is a board at > Google that makes the decision about whether or not to feature an app and > that decision is multifactorial, including factors like what other apps are > featured at that time and whether it fits with the current theme of the store > (e.g. “Back to School”, etc.). We made need to make some tweaks to get it > featured (e.g. he said they might say something like “Make the app more > tablet-friendly and we can feature it”), and we’d be informed of what those > were. > > We’ve got a choice with how we proceed with this: > We submit the current form of the production build to be featured. > We wait to finish some of the current threads of work (e.g. wrapping up page > issues and disambiguation), upload and hold that build unpublished, then > submit that to be featured, coordinating the release date with Joe. > I have a mild preference for option 2 as then we can coordinate the release > of the new features with the featuring, and get more bang for our buck. That > said, I am extremely proud of the app that we have out there right now, so I > would be more than happy to submit to be featured if that’s the consensus. > > Thoughts? > > Dan > > -- > Dan Garry > Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps > Wikimedia Foundation > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l
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