Re: Masscheck recovery from corpus starvation

Bill Cole <[email protected]> Sun, 19 Apr 2026 19:11:33 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.spamassassin.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2026-04-19 at 13:20:48 UTC-0400 (Sun, 19 Apr 2026 10:20:48 -0700 
(PDT))
John Hardin <[email protected]>
is rumored to have said:

> 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.

+1


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