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Scalability of Manual Validation in Related Website Sets

Determine how the manual validation component of the GitHub-based governance process for Google's Related Website Sets list will scale if the mechanism becomes more widely adopted and submission rates increase.

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Background

Related Website Sets are managed via GitHub pull requests, with automated checks providing quick feedback and a manual validation phase contributing to a median processing time of five days for successful submissions.

The current low rate of requests leaves uncertainty about how the manual review process will perform under higher load if the mechanism is widely adopted, motivating an investigation into the scalability of the manual component.

References

Given the low rate of requests, it is unclear how the manual component of the process will scale should this mechanism become more widely adopted.

— A First Look at Related Website Sets (2408.07495 - McQuistin et al., 14 Aug 2024) in Section 4, The Related Website Set List — "How long does it take for a pull request to be processed?"