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by seanwilson 2223 days ago
Until Google gives us a roadmap with what they're going to change about the review process and when, I'm not hopeful right now. I don't understand why they need to be this opaque about it if they want a healthy developer ecosystem.

It's currently expected behaviour that extension updates from developers can take up to 3 weeks to be reviewed and go live (same as before the pandemic):

https://developer.chrome.com/webstore/faq

> "If your item's status says "pending review" for more than three weeks, you should contact support."

Is it going to change? When? See here for all the developers waiting over 3 weeks for their updates to go live (that's not including what happens when they don't pass review):

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/chrom...

All we seem to get back from the few people on the Chrome extension team that communicate with extension developers is along the lines of "I understand your concerns, I want it to change as well, and I'll talk to the team".

It's like the person from Google is talking about getting in touch with a team that work for entirely different company, as if what the team can't be influenced.

Who's the one making the actual decisions and why don't they talk to us directly?