I need to apologize and set things right with the support team

Dear @christopherfujino, @darshankawar and others,

I want to take a moment and get this relationship on better footing. I have opened several repo issues, #156922 and #161128 in the flutter/flutter repo issues list that got a little heated. I was frustrated with you. You were frustrated with me. We were getting nowhere and this bug was not getting addressed.

I apologize for being belligerent and obtuse. I was frustrated. Beyond frustrated, quite frankly. I have been working nonstop on the alpha for our project for over a year and a half only to get into blocker hell with Microsoft and their MAUI product. MAUI is extremely buggy and just not ready for prime time. There were other Microsoft issues, but MAUI was primary. I decided to stop trying to make MAUI work and switched to the Uno Platform only to realize that many of the WinUI 3 issues from Maui were also going to be present in Uno. Frustration mounts. Then, I got Flutter to work on Linux (ubuntu) and Mac and was elated only to find that Flutter only seems to be able to build for the environment that is being used - not like Golang where one installation can build for all platforms (except for the pesky iOS! :no_mouth:). I have just grown weary of all of the blockers that are beyond my control. My project should have 10 engineers, but we are not funded yet, so I am carrying 100% of the frontend/backend development load and I am exhausted. Hence, it doesn’t take too much to irritate me nowadays.

With all of that said, I took my frustration out on you and your team when I should not have, so I extend an olive branch of humility and apologize to all I offended.

It would be great if I could get unblocked from the flutter/flutter repo as I have a fix I would like to propose for the issue I have barked about. Please allow that to happen.

Let’s make 2025 a year of success and prosperity.

Cheers,
Steve

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@CraigLabenz @TahaTesser I had a long conversation with Steve. I support that he is getting unblocked.

I would suggest reaching out to the team on Flutter Discord on this matter.

@TahaTesser Isn’t that what my last message was - a direct message to the team on Discourse? I did ask to be unblocked. What else do I need to do?

@CraigLabenz messaged me that someone from the team will look into it.

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