Thread: 2012 Coding Competition
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2012-09-05 , 18:16
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Originally Posted by jonquark View Post
I asked this earlier in the thread but I got different answers from different people....can someone give me a definitive answer?



In my case, I put an alpha version of Grrok on my website shortly before the competition started... but it should be appearing in the Ovi Store "any day now".

It's not really an update to an "existing app" but it's not been developed entirely in the competition timeframe (I was too keen and started after the competition was announced without realising there was going to be a start date in the future).

Which category should I put it in? New app or update?
Sorry jonquark, I must have missed your original message somewhere earlier in the thread.

It feels a little unfair but, as you had an alpha version of Grrok on your website before the competition started, I'm afraid that sounds like already released software. I can see from your Grrok announce thread that, as you said, it wasn't long before the competition started (it's dated 05-24-12) and also there was another release only a week before the competition started "06-04-12 at 10:55 PM. Reason: Grrok v0.1.1 released - can now get more items for a feed"

Your application has fallen into a bit of a grey area. We have no idea when anyone truly starts work on an application, only when the first release comes around. That's why you'll have seen us talking about the 'first release' a lot in earlier posts. Personally, I don't consider sharing a bit of code as the first release but when you have something functionally complete and built and are sharing that then really you pretty much have released software. I don't know a lot about your application, but from my own software development experience an alpha release is something I feel is complete and is going through testing in the view of releasing. In that case, there probably wouldn't be significant enough work done during the competition time frame.

Without knowing further details, I would suggest "Updates.." if there are some new functionality or features added since that alpha release. That's what we'd ask the forum users to judge on.

Originally Posted by leon.anavi View Post
Hi All,

I built a new release of MoGateway and submitted it for validation at Nokia Store.

Kojacker should have received my submission of MoGateway to the Network & Communications category.
Thanks Leon, yep already got it
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