Status of appengine?

I have the latest (180.0.1) version of gcloud installed and cannot seem to get appengine server running. Starting manually or via devcam results in INFO 2017-11-30 02:04:34,296 devappserver2.py:105] Skipping SDK update check. INFO 2017-11-30 02:04:34,453 api_server.py:301] Starting API

Re: Per-contributor focuses for next major release, hack sessions

Okay, here goes short term: - modernize our dependencies so it's easier to work well with other related projects and infrastructure. - learn the block/kv backends, possibly implement for ethereum swarm and IPFS. - Promote, promote, promote; organize, organize, organize And of course my Long term