On Mon, 23 May 2011, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote:
On 23/05/2011 9:27 AM, John Hardin wrote:
Are we going to do a new release with stale rules?
As you know, I made the improvement to the update generation to limit scores
to those defined in sandboxes to act as a safety net against too high scores
being assigned.
Yes, I was aware of that.
Do we need to copy the trunk sandboxes to the 3.3 branch and do a
masscheck/promotion/scoring pass before release?
I also, per Warren's request, provided a current (as of last week) update for
review prior to re-enabling nightly updates. The update is also the most
suitable package to be used as the 3.3.2 release's associated rule package.
I have not heard from *anyone* in regards to their satisfaction with that
update.
I must admit I haven't looked at it.
In case it's not clear, the rule updates are generated with the rules from
the *trunk* sandboxes (which is why there is a somewhat elaborate lint
testing procedure against every tagged stable release for the update
packages). So copying trunk sandboxes to the 3.3 branch would not achieve
anything.
Ah, I wasn't aware of that (or had forgotten since stable updates have
been turned off).
I'd suggest that there should be nightly masschecks and rule
autopromotion and update generation for the production branch as well as
for trunk. We're doing a lot of rule dev on trunk, but how widely used
is it in actual production?
I'm just waiting for approval from the group to turn the stable updates back
up. trunk updates are of course ongoing already. Are you asking for
generated scores to be released with the trunk update packages?
Where would the scores for sandbox rules in a stable update come from if
not the generated scores? Would they all be scored at 1.0 unless a manual
explicit score was entered in a file under rules/ ?
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