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.
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.
I continue to maintain that Google should adopt negative peer bonuses
"The peer malus" - Frederic Beal
And that will result increased tension between the teams “downvoting each other”.
Maybe this way Google will truly become a Microsoft-type of company.
Is it not there already?
I thought the fabled monorepo was supposed to prevent this?
IIRC, both Android and Chrome(OS) upstream are not in the google3 monorepo.