On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 01/30/2013 10:43 AM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
- Page 9 - Consider mentioning Firefox OS in addition to Android and
iOS. Brion and Patrick already poked in that direction. (And well, it's a FLOSS conference, but since you mention iOS, consider mentioning the Windows Mobile app too.)
I asked Brion about the main focus. He mentioned Android and iOS. This is also how it looks like when you come from the outside. I'd rather explain this story and encourage others to cover all the rest.
Indeed our primary focus is on Android and iOS right now, as we're a small team and that's where the users are. I would love to hear from people interested in helping create & maintain apps for Firefox OS, BlackBerry 10, and Windows Phone 8, but we've got limited resources ourselves.
Note that we do have a Firefox OS app in the Marketplace (thanks to Patrick, Rob Moen, and a bunch of awesome folks at the Bangalore DevCamp for work on that!). I hope to continue to improve it in my research time but we have no resources officially allocated to maintaining either Firefox OS or the Windows 8/RT tablet apps.
Right now we're doing a big push on native apps for Commons upload tools for iOS and Android; we're getting good contributions from the community so far with a few interested folks sending in patches. These apps will eventually integrate campaign functionality replacing the HTML/JS-based Wiki Loves Monument app we did last year.
Somewhere in the next few months we'll move on to redoing our current HTML/JS-based Wikipedia apps as native apps as well; again unless priorities change the main focus will be on Android and iOS.
-- brion