Not so much a feature request but a project request for 2014. Can Google please assign a couple of interns to go through the issue tracker.
https://code.google.com/p/google-plus-platform/issues/list?can=1&q=&sort=-stars&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Component%20Owner%20Summary%20Stars
First check that all the issues marked as fixed are actually fixed. There are several highly starred issues I'm aware of that got marked as fixed incorrectly at some time in the past. Or that have re-appeared in subsequent updates.
Second, triage, prioritise, merge and generally tidy up the open issues and get them assigned to people capable of dealing with them.
I've come to accept that Google won't comment on future changes. But there are bugs in there where fields in the documentation never get filled or are filled incorrectly and the issue has been outstanding for 2 years or more. Seriously, either fix the docs or the code or something. Because eventually you'll lose the good will of the developers posting into the tracker. At the moment it feels very much as though nobody is actually watching. Or if they are, they're deliberately choosing to do nothing or not allowed to do anything or simply ignoring it.
Finally, this may be difficult, but I really think anything with over 30 stars or so deserves some more formal response and explanation.
https://code.google.com/p/google-plus-platform/issues/detail?id=393
It's marked as fixed. And yet it's very clear that the issue is still present and the API is still broken. More detail in this post here. https://plus.google.com/106416716945076707395/posts/E3pWasEiVDQ
So we've got
- Documentation that describes fields
- An API that doesn't return those fields
- An Issue describing this problem. But the issue is marked as Fixed.
- The same issue is raised in this forum
- Multiple people report it, star the issue and +1 the post
- But there's no response on the issue or on the post here from Google employees except from a Project Member back in June 2013 (when the bug was still broken) that says "This issue was fixed some time ago."
This is not good enough, right? This is just one example of an ongoing, pervasive problem with Google's developer relations. Dear Google, please try harder in 2014.
+Thor Mitchell
/cc +Rowan Merewood +Michael Stillwell +Joanna Smith
https://code.google.com/p/google-plus-platform/issues/detail?id=620
Issue running for 6 months, 37 stars, missing data in API where the docs say data should be available. Problem confirmed. Last response from Google is July 29.
Good to know we've been heard. But of course we're looking for actual fixes as much as to have the issues audited!
3 months since this post and not much evidence of activity in the Plus Platform Issue Tracker.
https://code.google.com/p/google-plus-platform/issues/list?q=&sort=-stars
Somebody from Google is doing a little work on merging new duplicates into existing issues but that's about it.
https://code.google.com/p/google-plus-platform/issues/detail?id=620#c31
https://code.google.com/p/google-plus-platform/issues/detail?id=620#c33
currentLocation is no longer listed as a valid field for the People API.