Hi Developers, We've been working on a number of changes on AppReviewer the past few weeks. One of the biggest ones is that we are now continuously reviewing live apps and establishing a deadline of 15 days for you to correct your application when we detect a problem. If your application continues to fail review during those 15 days, it will be taken down.
During the 15 day period, you will receive periodic messages from AppReviewer (roughly every 12 hours) indicating the errors that still exist in your application, and informing you of the remaining time you have to fix your application. If you fix your application, AppReviewer will send you a message saying your application passed review and all is back to normal: the deadline stops counting and your app is good to go. You may be worried about false-alarms. For example, one that might be more likely to occur than others are network latency issues. So you might get an email from AppReviewer saying your app failed review because we could not fetch a given resource, and giving you 15 days to fix the problem. But when you test the resource, it's loading correctly. So what's the matter in this case? Well, networks can be unreliable at times, so yes, this may be a false alarm. In that case, you should wait for the next review (which occurs roughly 12 hours later). If you get a second failure message from the same resource, something is definitely strange and it looks less random, and is most likely a real problem with your application. What if your app is innocent and it's really a random network error? Well, the only reason your application would get actually taken down because of that false-alarm is if it's unlucky enough to fail review 30 times (15 days x 2 reviews/day) because of random network issues. We think that's highly unlikely! So, if your application is failing reviews constantly, you must take action! Try to find the problem in your application, and, if you need help, please come to the forum and ask the community for some advice! - Bruno Oliveira (Google) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "orkut Developer Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
