I hear what you are saying, but to be clear the ability to run the python app isn't my primary concern here. We have already run a closed beta with the un-notarized version of our app. Once we set the firewall permissions on the machines of the beta testers, everything worked fine. My question was more about the length of time it take to get an app notarized. I am mostly posting as an update that I finally got logs today. All 7 submissions finished at about the same time and show that they were accepted. So my impression is that there is just a minimum time for first-time notarizations.

Thanks for the response. I do appreciate that there are some issues with permissions, entitlements, etc for notarizing apple software. However, we are trying our hardest to maintain a unified codebase going forward, so we are very much trying to prioritize finding a way to make the original python build work. I have also run the workflow commands from the terminal, and I receive identical output. I have no reason to think that the workflow is the source of this issue, but I do intend to continue attempting to run this locally if issue continue. I wasn't able to find any resources in the documentation about the nuances of notarizing python apps. If you can think of resources that are available, that would be helptful. Thanks!

I am also having the same issue with a simple test app. To test, I generated a "hello world" that displays hello world to a window in tkinter with python and nothing else. I built it with pyinstaller as a single statically linked executable and then then packaged it as an app by moving it into an hello.app/Contents/MacOS/ directory and adding some small metadata., signed it, and sent it to notarize. My notarization is still "In Progress" 24 hours later. I would also like to know if there is something going on with the apple notary tool right now.