Ikai, I think I may be able to spend some time on a user space version
of app engine gallery over the coming months. I think the prediction
API is a great idea to use as a tool to help fight the spam. We shall
see.

Thanks for your assistance.

-- Jay

On Nov 8, 1:04 pm, "Ikai Lan (Google)" <ikai.l+gro...@google.com>
wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> Apologies for the delayed responses on this thread. The App Gallery was
> something that was really awesome in App Engine's infancy, but App Engine
> has since matured a bit and it's really not the best way to showcase App
> Engine's capabilities. We've decommissioned it. If you're interested in App
> Engine happenings, you'll definitely want to regularly check out our Reddit
> page:
>
> http://www.reddit.com/r/appengine
>
> We should have better communicated our intents with this page. We're
> unlikely to bring the App Gallery back. I'd personally love to see an App
> Engine application that serves the function the App Gallery served, maybe
> one that even uses the Prediction API (http://code.google.com/apis/predict/)
> to sort out the spam and do rankings. If this is a project community members
> are interested in taking on, let me know and I'll get you access to the
> prediction API.
>
> On a related note, due to the changes coming in Google Groups, we will be
> porting the Open Source projects page as well as the "Will it Play" Java
> frameworks page to our Project Hosting site:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/w/list
>
> --
> Ikai Lan
> Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine
> Blogger:http://googleappengine.blogspot.com
> Reddit:http://www.reddit.com/r/appengine
> Twitter:http://twitter.com/app_engine
>
> On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 1:03 AM, Tonny <12br...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I you wan't to emphasize the importance of this thread, please mark is
> > a favorite - I tink Google Engineers are monitoring those for
> > importance.
>
> > On Nov 8, 8:53 am, Julian Namaro <namarojul...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I think a specific "App Engine" tag in a general Web App Gallery would
> > > make more sense than what we had before.
> > > After all, what you can do with App Engine is pretty much the same
> > > than what you can do with other technology stacks, and much of what
> > > the user experiences is the common client-side part anyway.
>
> > > On Nov 7, 6:21 am, nickmilon <nickmi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > Also the gallery was a kind of museum where you could see how GAE
> > > > appls have been evolved in time from the early days circa April 2008
> > > > till now, always advancing using new features of the platform or as
> > > > the features were understood by the developers.
> > > > Now if they even do substitute this with a new site I doubt early
> > > > developers will go and resubmit their work.
> > > > So I only hope Google reconsiders this, fixes the problems related to
> > > > spam and classification of appls and restore the site.
>
> > > > On Nov 6, 5:17 am, Julian Namaro <namarojul...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > An App Gallery is a great idea but Google's one looked like a weekend
> > > > > project thrown out in the wild and was pretty useless.
> > > > > There was a lot of spam, unhelpful reviews, and occasionally you
> > could
> > > > > see Desktop software (running only on Windows, not even cross-
> > > > > plateform) with a whole bunch of 5-stars ratings in this "App Engine"
> > > > > gallery.
>
> > > > > My guess is that they're deprecating the gallery in favor of the
> > > > > Chrome Web Store. Hope this will be a more serious attempt :]
>
> > > > > On Nov 5, 6:14 am, MLTrim <michele.trimar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > > Do you know why App Gallery  is no longer available?
>
> > > > > >http://appgallery.appspot.com
>
> > > > > > thanks
> > > > > > Michele
>
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