Thanks, pamela, I subscribed to this group right now. For me it is not only a matter of convenience, it is also a matter of time, engagement and interest shift. So knowing to have an "alerter" for remarkable API changes helps a lot.
Thanks Regards pamela fox schrieb: > Hi Neil- > > I realized that it's not convenient for most developers to stop by the > board and monitor it for sticky posts on a regular basis. For this > reason, I've created a announcement-only list for posting about > releases and any major bugs/outages/deprecations. > > I've actually been test-posting to it for the past few weeks, so you > can see what the posts will be like: > http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-api-notify > > We'll add links to this from the documentation soon (just figuring out > where, as we want to be careful not to confuse developers). > > Anyone here is welcome to subscribe to that list now. > > For you developers who use any of our other APIs at Google, there will > be -notify lists for each of them within the next month. > > - pamela > > On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Neil.Young <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Thank you both for your educated answers. >> >> The best strategy recommendation of geocodezip would require one to stay >> in near contact with pamela using this board. I doubt, that I will do >> that really that often as it seems to be required in future once I have >> successfully finished my projects because I'm not - as you all I guess - >> exclusively "in the maps". So if I don't watch this board and something >> significantly changes in v2, I'll be triggered by frustrated customers. >> Having this choice I would rather opt for an explicit version, like >> v=2.140. This seems to be a bit more reliable, although this too might >> lead me to a 2.145 in future :) >> >> Isn't that something Google has to be _more_ concerned about? I mean >> "Beta" all the time isn't always fun. We currently appear that with the >> German Google Maps board changes. Sometimes I would be glad to have at >> least a minimum SLA, even if the stuff I'm using is for free. And a v2 >> has to be the same v2, as it was at development/testing time. If I'm >> willing to go for a risk, okay, than I'll choose v=2.x >> >> Thanks. >> >> >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" 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-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
