14 messages in com.googlegroups.bloggerdevRE: [bloggerDev] Re: all posts, again| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Jonathan Ellis | 30 Jun 2006 19:21 | |
| Eric Case | 01 Jul 2006 11:11 | |
| logh...@gmail.com | 14 Jul 2006 09:53 | |
| Bill Lazar | 14 Jul 2006 10:40 | |
| phop...@google.com | 14 Jul 2006 12:57 | |
| Bill Lazar | 14 Jul 2006 13:10 | |
| phop...@google.com | 14 Jul 2006 14:01 | |
| Bill Lazar | 14 Jul 2006 14:06 | |
| Steve Jenson | 14 Jul 2006 14:46 | |
| Bill Lazar | 14 Jul 2006 15:03 | |
| Steve Jenson | 14 Jul 2006 15:30 | |
| Bill Lazar | 14 Jul 2006 15:43 | |
| Toru Marumoto | 14 Jul 2006 18:12 | |
| Toru Marumoto | 14 Jul 2006 18:37 |
| Subject: | RE: [bloggerDev] Re: all posts, again |
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| From: | Bill Lazar (b....@billsaysthis.com) |
| Date: | 07/14/2006 10:40:51 AM |
| List: | com.googlegroups.bloggerdev |
This 'discussion' has come up numerous times before on the list. In fact I believe I was one of the more recent people to express the same frustration as you.
The answer that always comes back is that Google, as a company policy, does not issue product roadmaps. Releases come when they come and even if an employee makes a comment like the one you responded to, it is not to be considered official or authoritative.
Unless, I suppose, it comes in the form of a product blog entry though, oddly enough, Blogger doesn't really have a product blog. Buzz is a marketing blog and Status, to be kind, is a simple current/planned outage list.
Bill
-----Original Message----- From: blog...@googlegroups.com [mailto:blog...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of logh...@gmail.com Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 9:54 AM To: bloggerDev Subject: [bloggerDev] Re: all posts, again
We feel your frustration... it's _almost_ ready for testing, with Blogger/GData documentation just around the corner. Hopefully I'll have more news to report next week - solid dates are moving targets, alas...
Hi Eric,
It's been, errr, more than a week. Any update?
I honestly want to be constructive and I am sure you guys are working as hard as you can but it really is getting frustrating.
I've had a little project that's been stalled for months 'waiting' for the coming blogger changes that have been promised for a while (first Atom 1.0 and now Gdata)
I was talking to a friend here at work and I talked about the situation with the Blogger API and was talking about some of the frustrations: lack of documentation, missing features, missed deadlines and his comment was "It sounds like the development team is a bunch of high school students working on this in their spare time"
Don't take this the wrong way. His point wasn't that you guys aren't smart, talented, or the product was inherently bad but more the way it's being run seems like a side project -- But perhaps it is a side project, I don't know?
I assume you have guys have a roadmap, with plans for each release and schedules. I assume you have resources behind the schedules and you have regular team meetings to monitor progress. I assume you have a product manager or marketing type who helps make scope vs. schedule vs. resource tradeoffs but from an external point of view it doesn't really feel that way.
I get the fact that you may not want to share detailed plans but I really wish there was a way you could somehow give us a bit more to hang our hat on then "Maybe next week, solid dates are moving targets."
Do you kind of understand where I am coming from? Can you understand why folks might be frustrated?
Anyway I want to mention again that I do appreciate the fact that you roam this group and I'm trying not to attack your personally. I'm just trying to share some of my frustration. in a honest manner.