Re: Masscheck recovery from corpus starvation

John Hardin <[email protected]> Sun, 19 Apr 2026 10:20:48 -0700 (PDT)
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.spamassassin.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 15 Apr 2026, [email protected] wrote:

> On 4/15/26 5:19 AM, John Hardin wrote:
>>
>>  Some code review of the RuleQA system shows that the way it is designed it
>>  will take a week to recover from a corpus starvation problem that affects
>>  the weekly net checks.
>>
>>  Masscheck runs both net and non-net scoring every day, looking back 7 days
>>  to get the last network masscheck results. RuleQA is currently not
>>  publishing rules because it is hung up on last friday's net masscheck that
>>  was ham-starved due to llanga's scheduling problem.
>>
>>  This will recover on its own by the end of the week.
>>
>>  Proposed code changes to bypass a starved network masscheck and reuse the
>>  current network set scores are attached.
>>
>> 
> +1 for me, analysis makes sense.
>  Thanks
>   Giovanni

Okay, it looks like RuleQA has recovered on its own with the fresh network 
mass check data and a rule update for revision 1933146 has been published.

I will be making the proposed scoreset fallback changes sometime this 
week. If someone else could take a look and yea/nay I'd appreciate it.


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