ping -- anyone there?

--j.

Justin Mason writes:
> Happy new year! New year, time for a new major release since we missed
> one in 2006 ;)
> 
> I think the 3.2.0 bugs list has most of the major ones off the list, and
> the remaining either (a) don't need to be done for 3.2.0 necessarily or
> (b) will probably be doable in the month or whatever between now and
> release, in parallel with rescoring (feel free to shout if this is not the
> case ;).
> 
> I've created http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5270 to
> track the rescoring task.
> 
> First step, I think, is to define a schedule.  How does this sound?
> (based approximately on what we did for 3.1.0: 
> http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/Release310Schedule )
> 
>   - T + 0 days: announce a heads-up mail. clean up our corpora, get ready
>     for mass-checking, try out mass-check to spot any big memory leaks or
>     whatnot, fix remaining bugs that affect mass-checks (esp bug 5260!),
>     get people signed up, enable all rules in svn.
> 
>   - T + 1 week, around a Thursday or so: start --bayes --net mass-checks;
>     move to C-T-R.
> 
>   - T + 3 weeks, a Monday or so: hopefully finish mass-checks, bugs
>     allowing ;) (note that includes two weekends.)
> 
>   - T + 3 weeks: perceptron runs, voting on new proposed scores, etc
> 
>   - T + 4 weeks and a bit: hopefully ready to release
> 
> 
> Interesting URLs for what happened in the 3.1.0 rescoring:
> 
>   http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/Release310Schedule
>   http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/RescoreMassCheck
>   http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/RescoreDetails
>   http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=4505
> 
> 
> Here are the remaining 3.2.0 bugs fwiw, apart from bug 5270 (rescoring):
> 
> 21 bugs found.
> ID      Sev     Pri     Summary
> 5155    maj     P1      "make install" always attempts to write to 
> /usr/local/lib...
> 5146    nor     P1      remove rule description translations out of 
> SpamAssassin ...
> 5269    blo     P2      may need to have separate mirror sets for differing 
> versi...
> 5235    maj     P2      SPF_FAIL on SMTP-authenticated mail relay
> 4493    enh     P2      add pre-tokenize text munge to learner
> 4820    maj     P3      The code for creating a new userstate_dir is severly 
> broken
> 4653    min     P3      bayes_pg.sql syntax error for old versions of PgSQL 
> (7.4.x)
> 5260    maj     P5      Memory leak persists in 3.2 DNS usage
> 3563    nor     P5      Odd errors if tieing Bayes DB while learning...
> 4078    nor     P5      Windows Hebrew encoding in subject not detected
> 4332    nor     P5      PMS->{redirect_num} unused / obfu redirection not 
> included
> 4435    nor     P5      Progress meter doesn't handle time left when it's in 
> the ...
> 4598    nor     P5      If DNS set available and it's not, hard failure occurs
> 4717    nor     P5      EnvelopeFrom option should be documented
> 4747    nor     P5      Problems with EnvelopeFrom auto-detection
> 4999    nor     P5      spamd --auth-ident trivial to bypass
> 5110    nor     P5      EXTRA_MPART_TYPE fires on valid multipart/related
> 5185    nor     P5      Bayesian learning uses different message checksums 
> during...
> 5257    nor     P5      push out autolearning thresholds for 3.2.0
> 4770    min     P5      use ASN data as Bayes token
> 
> --j.

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