Yes please add to/expand/update the roadmap. The main value I see about having a roadmap is that it is a strong signal that the platform is not dead in the water. The secondary value of a roadmap is for me as a customer to broadly understand whether the platform's future is aligned with my future/plans.
In its most basic form that means the roadmap communicates confidence to me that I know I'm on the right platform and I believe in its future. I do understand all the hassle in keeping it updated and regarding the pressure that a roadmap can add – especially if you add expected release dates. That's why I'd be quite happy with not having specific features listed at all. I'm happy to have broad topics that you are planning to work on/improve. I'd also appreciate roadmap updates to be posted to the mailing list additionally to having an up-to-date page in the documentation. Cheers, Thomas On Monday, May 6, 2013 12:43:49 AM UTC-7, PK wrote: > > Chris & Google Team: > > Assuming you were to keep it up to date, I find the roadmap page very > useful. When I have the flexibility I would joggle my roadmap deliverables > to align them with your roadmap. At this point I have so much code in > python that any new runtime announcement would not change my direction, > well unless the new runtime was so exciting AND I could mix and match > runtimes in the same app---which I guess might be equivalent to accessing > the same datastore from different apps with different runtimes. > > Announcing changes to the roadmap page in this mailing list, so that we do > not have to poll all the time, would be welcome. Some times it had happened > in the past. > > PK > http://www.gae123.com > > > On Sunday, May 5, 2013 at 11:44 PM, Chris Ramsdale wrote: > > Completely fair point. That said: > > - do folks find this page, and its content, useful? > - does it change whether or not you would use the platform or a > particular feature? > - is there a more desirable channel for communicating this information? > > -- Chris > > Product Manager, Google App Engine > > > On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 11:33 PM, PK <p...@gae123.com <javascript:>> wrote: > > New runtime? It could not be, it is not in the GAE roadmap > page<https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/features#Roadmap_Features>:-) > > > Seriously, is the roadmap page kept up to date? It seems to be very > shallow. > > PK > http://www.gae123.com > > On Wednesday, May 1, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Tom wrote: > > It appears that Google will be adding a new runtime. > > https://plus.google.com/103859497630711080569/posts/4T9FUCPsewA > > The description for one of the codelabs says they will be adding "another > very popular programming language to the list of supported runtimes". > > My guess is PHP, but my preference would be Dart as it would allow me to > easily use Dart for both client and server. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to google-appengi...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to google-a...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> > . > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to google-appengi...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to google-a...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> > . > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to google-appengi...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to google-a...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> > . > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
