The time commitment (any participation for heuristic evaluation) expected
from us but it sounds like a great platform for reach, we should do it.
Usually their feedback is about improving existing stuff and not adding new
features. Having lead images and the disambig/ page issues in the build we
submit to them would be super useful.

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Vibha Bamba
Senior Designer | WMF Design








On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 10:08 AM, Monte Hurd <[email protected]> wrote:

> That's so great! :)
>
> On Aug 22, 2014, at 3:44 PM, Dan Garry <[email protected]> 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:
>
>    1. We submit the current form of the production build to be featured.
>    2. 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    unpublished, then submit that to be featured, coordinating the release date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
>
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> Dan Garry
> Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps
> Wikimedia Foundation
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