Ask HN: Is there anything Google App Engine could improve?

I wish there were some "quick deploy" mode for when you are developing a staging version of your app and not needing the scalability yet. I have staging and production versions of my app, both need to be online so that outside services can reach them, but it's annoying to wait for the staging deploys every time I make a small change. Of course this is solvable by just renting a dev box from linode and running dev_appserver there, which is what I'm planning to try soon, but would be a time saver if this were included.

PHP support

(yes downvote me I don't care, PHP isn't perfect but you're being crazy if you categorically think you can't write good software in it)

Comet or some way to long poll would be nice Faster deploys (I've had to write my own one click deploy, not fun to say the least)

Other than that, I'm pretty happy with the reliability it provides. It takes some getting used to but once you are, it's pretty smooth.

no SSL for our own domains is the one killer for me at the moment.... be nice to know a bit more about the timescales of the items on the roadmap, maybe which releases things are being aimed for just to get more of an idea of priorities.

Redis support

More recent version of python?

MapReduce and Pregel.

PHP Support