[funimpoded]

Dunno how it is these days, but that reads like Android roughly 2012-2020.

I once found a looooong bug report thread on their issue tracker 7ish years old that had all the usual waves of promises that a fix might make the next release, then silence, then repeat, and the usual challenges to the bug’s status every time a release happened, plus it saw community members correctly diagnose the problem in the first couple years, then by like year 5 there’s was a (small!) patch posted by a community member with multiple posters confirming it was good and fixed the issue, that the author and others had been begging Google to apply and get in a release for a couple years. There’d been no responses from Google folks for a while.

That might be the worst one I saw, but encountering something like that was a few-times-per-year thing in my android app dev years.

[earthdeity]

On a similar note, Firefox doesn't support <input type="month">, which I was surprised to see (chrome landed it in 2012). I checked their issue tracker and... as you describe. Browsers are complex, of course, but they do stand out as a really glacial corner of the software world.

[pjmlp]

I no longer care, thankfully, however for several years the Android NDK felt like it was a 20% project from someone on the team.