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>PSL is maintained by volunteers and there should be zero expectation of turnaround times on PR (and a respect for the labor burden shifted onto them by orgs using PSL as a bozofilter)

What is to stop Facebook from assigning an engineering team to act as volunteers so the turnaround time drops to zero?

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Um, because those engineers don't have commit access to the repository? You can't just hire an engineering team and take over any open source project you want.

Oh, I was assuming the engineering team would lie a pretend like they did not work for Facebook. I assumed they would slowly work to gain the confidence of those in control and little by little they gain the access they required themselves. Maybe they could pretend not to know each other and use that to their advantage. Surely a company with the resources of Facebook could manufacture fake alternate lives for the engineering team to make them look completely legitimate and harmless.

Do you mean Apple, whose usage of the PSL caused this?

No, Facebook. Facebook is telling companies to use the PSL. The PSL people are saying, “we give no guarantees about how long it will take us to add a domain to the PSL”. They could drag their feet so long as to make the PSL useless. To make sure it works, I could see Facebook wanting to get some of their people into position so that they can immediately approve PRs on the PSL.

I can’t think of any reason Apple would want to support the PSL.

Apple is literally the one recommending the PSL I have no idea what you're talking about

Did you not read the linked article from Facebook?

https://www.facebook.com/business/help/331612538028890?id=42...

Apple linked PSL to PSM. Facebook told all their sites to abuse PSL with requests to get added.

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