On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Daniel Florey <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi, > I did not want to offend anyone. > Hey, you are not offending anyone: discussion is always welcome here. > I just think it would make perfectly sense to improve Groups to allow > users to rate posts and display the best answer on top etc. > Especially if you take into account that Groups is also used as the Google > Apps help system. > Yes, I agree those would be very nice feature to have in groups. > We are using almost all Google products actively including many of the dev > tools and I had the impression that since introducing G+ Google recently > tried to streamline the offerings. > That's exactly what we are trying to do by doing this, streamlining the developer experience by having a place for each thing: - Want to start a technical discussion, go to the General Group - Want to ask a development question, go to Stack Overflow - Want to report a bug, go to the Public issue tracker Instead of having things scattered across multiple groups, and multiple platforms with a lot of duplicate along the way > There are also many way I can think of to improve the Groups experience by > adding some G+ stuff - which is very unlikely to happen in SO. > In fact a "Share on Google+" button recently poped on Stack Overflow :) > > I know that the decision is made and I'll have to get used to SO, but I > hope it will get reverted anytime soon - as it happend to the "old" "new" > Google Help system ;-) > Indeed, things are not set in stone and encouraging people to ask development question on Stack Overflow is also motivated by the populary of the google-app-engine tag rising there. We will continue to follow up with developer tool trends, and adapt our community support to it. Hope that helps you to understand better our motivations. Cheers, > 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/-/VENxQMkpLJMJ. > > 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.
