Not a Googler, but I’ve been around a while: * They moved support to stackoverflow in early 2012. It seems to be a common practice. I have mixed feelings about it myself, but it’s a thing, and definitely not a new thing.
* The Mail API and Channel API have both been zombie products since before 2012. I agree that G should make it more explicit when features like this have dark futures, but it wasn’t hard to figure out that you should avoid these APIs even in 2012. The Channel API in particular. * The Java8 runtime on GAE standard is in alpha test. There have been several public announcements here. I think there’s a link somewhere in this forum for applying to the program…ah, here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/google-appengine/java$208%7Csort:date/google-appengine/Zn7X3D7o584/DrTp64eeAwAJ Jeff On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 5:24 AM, Tim Consolazio <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been noticing some things: > > - App Engine support shunted over to Stack Overflow (so...a non-Google > community resource). > - Mail API pretty much deprecated (no more quota expansions, 100 email > limit). > - Deprecation of Channel API (sure we have Firebase, but still...what's > the commitment to that?) > - No Java 8 (and 7 was a long time in coming). > - Gradual deprecation of local SDK in favor of remote/virtual dev (which > to me is unacceptable, I depend on that local SDK). > > I frequently recommend App Engine (and I've built quite a few apps on it). > I've been a rogue evangelist of the platform for years (since it was > released in fact), and have been contracted by Google three times to build > applications using it. So I'm not a hater in any way. > > But I can't look at these events (particularly the Stack Overflow thing) > and ignore the impression that App Engine is beginning to feel more like a > side project rather than a commercial offering with full resource > commitment by the vendor. > > Curious about a formal statement of commitment here, and a complete > roadmap of what we can reasonably expect over say, the next two years. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/google-appengine/ffc4dd64-c827-4c5f-8765- > b84182e65e90%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/ffc4dd64-c827-4c5f-8765-b84182e65e90%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/CADK-0uh%3Dt94tRFWReOSW-xARR541mRKatewpu_H%3Darh_sxbWGw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
