We might announce through this mailing list, and/or on the code page.
On May 18, 2012 3:57 PM, "Tim Gupta" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Ahh, that makes sense. Thanks Mike for the update!
>
> And just out of curiousity though, is there a place for announcing API
> changes in case there were a change?
>
> Thanks again,
> Tim
>
> On Wednesday, May 16, 2012 2:40:12 PM UTC-7, Mike Erickson wrote:
>>
>> Hello Tim,
>>
>> Thanks for checking back. We do review forum posts and respond when time
>> permits.
>>
>> This is actually a result of a bug in our storage system which failed to
>> pick up the exif from one of the processing backends, but the problem is
>> fixed and we are running through the photos effected by this bug and
>> restoring the exif. This might take a little while (days to weeks) but you
>> should see the exif reappear once your photos have been reprocessed.
>>
>> This is a backend issue and not an API issue, so please be assured that
>> there were no unannounced changes to the API.
>>
>> Thank you, and sorry for the delay in getting back to you on this.
>> -m.e.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Tim Gupta wrote:
>>
>>> Anyone? Anyone there from Google? The API for getting EXIF data from a
>>> photo is still broken.
>>>
>>> I get an empty EXIF tag back whether I use a token or do an
>>> unauthenticated call.
>>>
>>> On a related note, is there somewhere that I can go to keep up to date
>>> on API changes like this so I don't get caught by surprise?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance!
>>> Tim
>>>
>>>
>>> On Friday, May 11, 2012 12:24:05 AM UTC-7, Tim Gupta wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Anyone know why the Exif data seems to no longer be coming with the
>>>> Picasa API?
>>>>
>>>> I get the Exif with an older album (from January 2012):
>>>> https://picasaweb.google.com/**d**ata/feed/api/user/tjgupta/**albu**
>>>> mid/5705507652193396273/**photoi**d/5705507721909034290?**prettypr**
>>>> int=true<https://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/user/tjgupta/albumid/5705507652193396273/photoid/5705507721909034290?prettyprint=true>
>>>>
>>>> But not from one I uploaded yesterday:
>>>> https://picasaweb.google.com/**d**ata/feed/api/user/tjgupta/**albu**
>>>> mid/5740958642333381937/**photoi**d/5740958675959149826?**prettypr**
>>>> int=true<https://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/user/tjgupta/albumid/5740958642333381937/photoid/5740958675959149826?prettyprint=true>
>>>>
>>>> I verified that the photos do in fact have the exif data still
>>>> attached to them (they display their exif properly on 500px.com), but
>>>> they're also showing weird exif on G+.
>>>>
>>>> Is there an undocumented change to the API that just recently
>>>> happened? Bug? A bunch of my web application suddenly stopped working
>>>> (www.shutterguides.com).
>>>
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>>
> On Wednesday, May 16, 2012 2:40:12 PM UTC-7, Mike Erickson wrote:
>>
>> Hello Tim,
>>
>> Thanks for checking back. We do review forum posts and respond when time
>> permits.
>>
>> This is actually a result of a bug in our storage system which failed to
>> pick up the exif from one of the processing backends, but the problem is
>> fixed and we are running through the photos effected by this bug and
>> restoring the exif. This might take a little while (days to weeks) but you
>> should see the exif reappear once your photos have been reprocessed.
>>
>> This is a backend issue and not an API issue, so please be assured that
>> there were no unannounced changes to the API.
>>
>> Thank you, and sorry for the delay in getting back to you on this.
>> -m.e.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Tim Gupta <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Anyone? Anyone there from Google? The API for getting EXIF data from a
>>> photo is still broken.
>>>
>>> I get an empty EXIF tag back whether I use a token or do an
>>> unauthenticated call.
>>>
>>> On a related note, is there somewhere that I can go to keep up to date
>>> on API changes like this so I don't get caught by surprise?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance!
>>> Tim
>>>
>>>
>>> On Friday, May 11, 2012 12:24:05 AM UTC-7, Tim Gupta wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Anyone know why the Exif data seems to no longer be coming with the
>>>> Picasa API?
>>>>
>>>> I get the Exif with an older album (from January 2012):
>>>> https://picasaweb.google.com/**d**ata/feed/api/user/tjgupta/**albu**
>>>> mid/5705507652193396273/**photoi**d/5705507721909034290?**prettypr**
>>>> int=true<https://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/user/tjgupta/albumid/5705507652193396273/photoid/5705507721909034290?prettyprint=true>
>>>>
>>>> But not from one I uploaded yesterday:
>>>> https://picasaweb.google.com/**d**ata/feed/api/user/tjgupta/**albu**
>>>> mid/5740958642333381937/**photoi**d/5740958675959149826?**prettypr**
>>>> int=true<https://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/user/tjgupta/albumid/5740958642333381937/photoid/5740958675959149826?prettyprint=true>
>>>>
>>>> I verified that the photos do in fact have the exif data still
>>>> attached to them (they display their exif properly on 500px.com), but
>>>> they're also showing weird exif on G+.
>>>>
>>>> Is there an undocumented change to the API that just recently
>>>> happened? Bug? A bunch of my web application suddenly stopped working
>>>> (www.shutterguides.com).
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