Re: Masscheck recovery from corpus starvation

On Sun, 19 Apr 2026, Bill Cole wrote:

> 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

Thanks, Bill. I will open a proper bug for this and attach the design 
document. I also clarified that a new rule added in combination with the 
corpus starvation recovery will get a default 0.001 score in all 
scoresets, which is the proper behavior.


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