Hi All, The API will be shut off in November of 2012. When we have an exact date for the release we'll let you know.
Thanks, Christina On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 7:35 AM, Daniel Florey <daniel.flo...@gmail.com>wrote: > I suspect that the low adoption is the real reason behind it. I guess > either the core developers left the App Engine team or they had some > serious licensing trouble with the underlying products (PrinceXML etc.) > But this just a guess, it is fully understandable that Google will not > communicate the real reasons behind this move. > But on the other hand I agree that claiming the "low adoption" is not a > good excuse as there are too many services in experimental state and it > will not scare developers to try them and invest time (and money). > So all I'm hoping for is to get some more time to find or implement an > alternative and a little bit less of this marketing-driven > email-communication. > If a service is switched off I simply want to get an email that says "We > are sorry..." instead of "One of the great things about App Engine..." > > Daniel > > On Monday, August 27, 2012 3:54:45 PM UTC+2, Joshua Smith wrote: > >> >> On Aug 27, 2012, at 5:20 AM, doright <doug.s...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> tell us how short you were from your required uptake >> >> >> Although I never actually tried the conversion API (too many people >> complaining it didn't work well scared me off), I think that Google is >> setting a bad precedent here. >> >> Killing projects because of low adoption makes people loath to adopt, >> because all the work they spend getting a feature integrated may be >> spontaneously wasted if it turns out the feature isn't widely adopted. >> >> So people reasonably avoid adopting features until they are popular. >> >> So features are killed because of low adoption. >> >> etc. >> >> I'm not sure exactly what the better way of doing things would be, but >> there are plenty of options. This way is clearly a terrible way to do >> business. >> >> -Joshua >> >> -- > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
