[BoingBoomTschak]

Could you expand on the "politics" part? I can't imagine the reason why. I mean, if you had said "suits thought this wasn't business relevant" or something, I'd have believed it.

[dmitrygr]

The intern was in the ChromeOS team, the fix would have needed to go into android. Those two teams were always in a bit of "stay in your lane, buddy" relationship.

[saagarjha]

I continue to maintain that Google should adopt negative peer bonuses

[mtklein]

"The peer malus" - Frederic Beal

[gessha]

And that will result increased tension between the teams “downvoting each other”.

Maybe this way Google will truly become a Microsoft-type of company.

[saagarjha]

Is it not there already?

[jjmarr]

I thought the fabled monorepo was supposed to prevent this?

[nullpoint420]

IIRC, both Android and Chrome(OS) upstream are not in the google3 monorepo.