Failing at reporting Android bugs

I try to write good bug reports, I really do. I fill out templates when asked. I try to include reproducible proof of the bug. I'll even give a screenshot or screen recording to prove I'm not making things up. If I'm familiar enough with the programming language, I'll also attempt to say roughly where the problem lies.

Sadly, that's not always enough.

Two years ago today, I wrote what I thought was a pretty comprehensive bug report for Android OS.

I included links to public forums where other people were experiencing the issue. I even posted some code which was designed to fix the issue.

Like most public Android bugs, it was assigned to some anonymous drone within the Googleplex - whereupon it was promptly ignored, never to be fixed.

The bug itself is quite minor. But it shows up in all sorts of places, and probably causes people around the world daily annoyance. I don't think it is a security bug - although I'd love to be proved wrong - so there's not much incentive for Google to fix things.

I get that Google receives thousands of bug reports. And I know that triaging them must be a time-consuming problem.

Open Source maintainers don't have to take orders from their users, nor do they have to prioritise trivial complaints. But it is just so frustrating to be unable to make even the merest dent in a bug.