I guess it’s not a hot topic. Or else it’s not well understood.
On Sep 10, 2014, at 12:42 PM, Kevin A. McGrail <[email protected]> wrote: > Can someone give him some guidance please? I'd like to support him improving > the plugin and I'm a bit busy with the RC for 3.4.1 and the SA report. > > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > Subject: Rule priority > Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 11:06:01 -0600 > From: Philip Prindeville <[email protected]> > To: SpamAssassin <[email protected]> > > Is there a good discussion on how rule priority works, and short-circuited > evaluation, etc? > > I must be looking in the wrong places because I can’t find much. I found > register_method_priority() in ::Plugin but I wasn’t sure if that’s all there > is… It only seems to be called in Plugin::Reuse::new() (well, you’d expect it > in the constructor). > > Looking in the rules themselves, also, there aren’t that many rules which > have an explicitly configured priority. > > I ask because I’m trying to address this comment: > > https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=7060#c10 > > but the source base doesn’t really contain a lot of useful examples. > > Thanks, > > -Philip > >
