may be you already read but here's some overview about what's left from judging process: http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/05/challenge-in-more-than-one-way.html
but try write a critique comment there... On May 19, 4:35 pm, Fabaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 android-challenge@googlegroups.com 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
