The main thing that an owner can do which a developer cannot do is delete an app, there is rarely a time when that is needed, so most of the times you should be able to work with an app as an owner. Are there privileges as a developer that you need and can't get unless you are an owner?
Greg On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Andreas <[email protected]> wrote: > i think a solution would be to allow only 1 owner per app and make another > role (for example admin) which has almost the same rights as an owner but > does not count against the users free apps. > > what do you think? > > On Nov 16, 2011, at 11:36 AM, Gregory D'alesandre wrote: > > Andreas, > > This is an interesting predicament. One of the things we changed is that > while we always only allowed 10 free apps per user, we didn't calculate it > very well, so in essence people would create new accounts to create new > apps and then give their old account ownership to those free apps in > essence to get around the limitation. So now we restrict that you can only > be the owner on 10 free active apps. This means that when you are trying > to disable billing on those apps you are in essence making them free apps > and it seems like you ran into your limit. A few options are: > - disable the app first and then it would not be both free and active so > it would not count against your 10 > - make yourself a developer on apps you do not need to be an owner on so > that they don't could against your 10 > > I hope that helps! > > Greg > > On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 6:36 AM, andreas schmid <[email protected]>wrote: > >> another very odd thing. >> >> i have many apps runngin. some of them i created personally and i am the >> owner/creator others i was set as owner by the creator. >> now i cant disable billing on my apps (i created) because it tells me >> that i already have too many free apps. >> >> this does not seem right to me!! >> >> On Nov 16, 2011, at 8:27 AM, andreas schmid wrote: >> >> are you kidding me?? >> disabled app and still charged?? this is a joke >> >> c'mon google guys!!!! >> >> On Nov 15, 2011, at 2:44 PM, Riley wrote: >> >> This happened to me, too - if you follow the links in the checkout >> receipt for long enough you eventually get to something with the appid >> buried in a description. >> >> In my case, the app was *disabled*, but I hadn't disabled billing >> separately, so I was still charged. Whoops! >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Google App Engine" group. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/fRmkmWeXCPcJ. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. >> >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Google App Engine" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. >> > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
