On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 12:26, <dar...@chaosreigns.com> wrote: > On 10/05, Jim Popovitch wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 17:41, RW <rwmailli...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> > The usual reason for a hiatus is that too much spam or ham has aged-out >> > in the corpora, and a top-up is needed. > > I think it's more accurate to say the usual reason is that too many people > have stopped automatically submitting data via masscheck, and we need > more people to submit data. > > I have a graphical representation of the problem here: > http://www.chaosreigns.com/dnswl/tot.svg > Green is spam, red is non-spam. They both need to be above the blue line > (150,000 emails each) for score generation to run to create the rule updates. > Counts as of the last (net) run: > Non-spams: 136261 (90.8% of the minimum) > Spams: 351950 (234.6% of the minimum) > >> So, how do we get it top-up'ed? > > You contribute your data: > http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/NightlyMassCheck > The more we have, the more accurately we can calculate optimal rule > scores, always. Unfortunately the Project Management Committee has a habit > of never responding to requests for masscheck accounts. > > > But the current situation appears to be abnormal. For some reason RuleQA > / score generation isn't including data submitted by uploading full emails > (normally just rule hit stats are uploaded). > > There is an open bug about that problem here: > https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6671 > > It seems there is nobody with the access, knowledge of the system, > and time required to fix the problem. > > There was supposed to be a SpamAssassin v3.4.0 Release Candidate released > 19 days ago, which seems to be primarily held up by this rule update > problem. Which nobody is working on. > > -- > "Go forth, and be excellent to one another." - > http://www.jhuger.com/fredski.php > http://www.ChaosReigns.com
Darxus, thanks for the summation of the situation. Is the missing entity one person, several people, many people? Was there an untimely death? I believe everyone is now aware that there exists a problem, how to we bridge the gap? Thanks! -Jim P.
