I agree. It should be pulled from both the store and disabled on translatewiki.net.
On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 9:54 PM, Monte Hurd <[email protected]> wrote: > I think it should be pulled. > > On Sep 8, 2014, at 7:10 PM, Dan Garry <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 6 September 2014 15:40, Derk-Jan Hartman <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I propose we remove the Wikimedia Commons app from the store. >> Clearly there is no time available to work on it, there is no one >> maintaining it or following up on the problems that have been reported >> since 2013. >> > > Thanks for the suggestion. > > Practically speaking, maintaining this app would mean cannibalising > resources currently devoted to the Wikipedia app. Brion and Yuvi are the > engineers with the most experience in the Commons app. They're currently > split a few different ways (Brion with his duties as an architect, Yuvi > with duties to ops) and I'm not eager to split them even further. > > Some framing on userbases: The Commons Android app is installed on around > 7,000 devices, compared to the 10 million devices with the Wikipedia app > installed on it. The Commons app gets around 300 users per month, and there > are more edits than that from the Wikipedia app per day to the English > Wikipedia alone. The Commons app user base is minuscule compared to the > Wikipedia app. > > Remember that sunsetting the app and removing it from the store would not > uninstall it from the devices it's currently installed on, so those people > using it would be able to do so. Also, the code would continue to be > available, so if someone wanted to clean it up as a volunteer we could then > re-publish it easily enough. > > So, in summary, I agree with DJ. > > Thoughts, team? > > Dan > > -- > Dan Garry > Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > >
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