I usually leave the handling of submissions to the editors who take this on as their main responsibility. HG and I both tend to focus on programming rather than submissions. There are two main reasons a submission may go a long time without being published.
Editors are too busy or inactive.
Authors are ignoring the questions or requests for changes made by the editors or other commenters.
Remember that the primary desire to get an article published belongs to the author. As an editor, I do not have any particular investment in getting a particular article published. I’m busy working on my own projects. As an author, it is your responsibility to cooperate with the editors and make sure everything is proceeding in a timely manner. If editors are waiting for you to do something, they may just put your submission aside until you do what was requested and in the meantime turn their attention to something else.
I usually leave the handling of submissions to the editors who take this on as their main responsibility. HG and I both tend to focus on programming rather than submissions. There are two main reasons a submission may go a long time without being published.
Remember that the primary desire to get an article published belongs to the author. As an editor, I do not have any particular investment in getting a particular article published. I’m busy working on my own projects. As an author, it is your responsibility to cooperate with the editors and make sure everything is proceeding in a timely manner. If editors are waiting for you to do something, they may just put your submission aside until you do what was requested and in the meantime turn their attention to something else.