Chronic slow PR review times and issue triage in Flutter
7/10 HighWith only ~50 team members supporting 1,000,000+ developers, Flutter suffers from slow pull request reviews and delayed issue resolution. Long-standing bugs remain unfixed, frustrating enterprise developers and creating a bottleneck in the development community.
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A contributor submits a PR (pull request), but it can take days to get a first response. Then comes the rework cycle—further extending the lead time. Even after approval, the code waits in limbo before deployment. Lead Time: 8 days in June stretched to nearly 12 days by September.
The project's stated grievances carried into 2025: an estimated 50 team members serving 1,000,000+ developers (a 1:20,000 ratio), slow PR review times, desktop platforms remaining "mostly stagnant," and serious bugs left unfixed.