Thanks Dan,
We'll set the release -- media, blog, etc. based on this. Also, I've poked
around with some other folks this evenings with successful products in the
store and have been told two things:
1) We'd talked about 'days of release' in other industries, and it seems as
though it holds for Apps: Apparently Apple and Google both do "featured
apps" on Thursdays. Pushing on Wednesday for Android seems to increase the
likelihood we could get featured. Has anyone on your team been in touch
with the Google Play bizdev folks about that possibility?
2) Reportedly the current baseline between pushing and propagating now is
about 1.5 hours. If we push at 9am PDT, we could be relatively confident
that a 12pm embargo/blog publication would offer sufficient space for
catching (obviously non-existent) bugs in the process. Sound good?
3) Finally -- there are some outstanding comments in the launch plan doc
that could use the eyes of someone on your side: namely, the banner
strategy for alerting users.
Much appreciated!
Katherine
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Dan Garry <dgarry(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi everyone,
So that the Communications team has a baseline which they can operate
from, we've set a specific time at which the APK for the Android release
will be pushed to the store. We'd already agreed on the date, 25th June,
but now we've set a specific time: 9am (SF time) on Wednesday 25th June.
The Communications team is aware that, in order to be fully accessible,
the app must still then propagate through Google's servers and that we have
no way of knowing how long this will take. But guaranteeing that we will at
least push the APK at a set time removes one of the variables from the
equation for them.
Thanks!
Dan
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