On 16 April 2015 at 10:03, Aleksey Bilogur <aleksey.bilogur(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Just to be sure, I don't have any ill will against
Yuvi, I'm just highly
surprised that the staff problem is apparently bad enough that the mobile
team is killing their own secondaries, even though mobile is one of the WMF
' S developmental foci.
When the Commons app was sunset, we had three mobile apps developers, one
for iOS and two for Android. If we decided to make the Commons app a
priority, it would've effectively halted development of the Wikipedia app.
Given that the Commons app had around 300 monthly active users, compared to
the Wikipedia app's 9,000,000 monthly active users, the decision to sunset
the Commons app was not a hard one. We were focussing our efforts on the
area that had the largest impact.
Revisiting that decision in the future is always a possibility. But, to be
clear, right now there are no plans to resume development of the Commons
app.
Dan
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Dan Garry
Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps
Wikimedia Foundation