On Mon, 6 Aug 2012, John Hardin wrote:
On Mon, 6 Aug 2012, Kevin A. McGrail wrote:
On 8/6/2012 11:52 AM, John Hardin wrote:
> All:
>
> The masscheck corpora are persistently hovering just below the
> thresholds
> needed for an automatic rules update to be generated, and the
> complaints
> about the high scores for the 12LTRDOM and HDRS_LCASE rules are getting
> louder.
>
> I recommend the best immediate course of action would be to manually
> update the 70_scores.cf file in the current updates tarball to set the
> scores for these rules to advisory levels and release that as a new
> update. I think this would be safer than pushing a manual rules update
> using scores based on somewhat-starved corpora.
>
> I'd be willing to do this but I don't know the details of where the
> master
> update tarballs live or how to publish a new update to DNS.
>
> Is there agreement that this is an appropriate course of action? Is
> someone who does know the details willing to do this?
I don't think this is the right action, really. I think we have to get
the infrastructure for mass checks working. I know that's my focus (and
I'm making good strides at work towards being able to focus more).
I agree that's the best and correct long-term solution. I was more concerned
with fixing this specific issue immediately without introducing a lot of
possible problems from simply pushing a manual rules update using the current
rules and masscheck scores.
Question: would making a tarball that contains _just_ a 70_scores.cf (or
more likely 72_scores.cf or even 73_sandbox_manual_scores.cf) file patch
just this problem without affecting anything else? I haven't looked
through the sa-update code to see what it actually does with the update
files from the tarball...
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