Hi Daniel, We observed that more and more people use Stack Overflow for asking development questions about App Engine: - 107 questions Last 7 Days - 461 questions Last 30 Days
And regularly development questions are posted on the language specific groups, appear to be already answered on Stack Overflow (a quick search on a particular topic often shows Stack Overflow Q&As as their first results). We believe that by focusing on 1 platform for development questions (instead of having google-appengine-java, google-appengine-python and Stack Overflow), we could create a better developer experience for App Engine by improving the quality of community support. Part of this decision is also about officially moving community support where developers are already going for their development questions, and we believe Stack Overflow is becoming the preferred destination for this. Hope that helps you to understand the rational of this decision. On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Daniel Florey <[email protected]> wrote: > I know that Google has grown to a large company and there may be many > divisions not knowing each other well. > But from an outside view it is really sad that instead of fixing / improving > existing Google products, teams are preferring an "easy workaround" like > moving to Stack Overflow. > I've experienced this many times in different Google projects and this > decision is by far not the worst example, but I don't think it is a good > idea anyway. > It was great when Google worked on Wave using gwt, which lead to many > improvements to gwt in a short time. Why not working closely with the guys > working on groups to add the missing features? > I'd prefer to use all the services with my google account integrated into > the navbar when working with the google stack. > > So in short: Eat your own dog food ;-) > > Daniel > > -- > 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/-/Utn2Os0vHVYJ. > > 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. -- Johan Euphrosine (proppy) Developer Programs Engineer Google Developer Relations -- 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.
