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disclaimer: i work in google cloud, but on the apps side.

One thing worth noting here is that google pretty famously has a monorepo and single-version policy. Meaning: while you may be right about the subteams/orgchart meta-issue, it's not actually shipping multiple versions of the same subcomponent. There's just one version.

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and i should add that this constraint is one of the reasons why some products get discontinued. right now, I'm dealing with migrating a dependency that has some breaking changes in an old section of my codebase that nobody has touched in years. I have to change it, because the dependency is changing, and I cannot continue to depend on the earlier version.

Happily, it is a simple enough update (and frequently these changes are automated by whomever is actually changing the library). But when this is something that needs extensive reworking, the project might get turned down instead.

Aha, so my guess was right: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24457476

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