Justin Mason wrote: > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 17:38, John Hardin <jhar...@impsec.org> wrote: >> On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Justin Mason wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 17:03, Yet Another Ninja <sa-l...@alexb.ch> wrote: >>> >>>> SARE had a nice system where you could submit a rule via email and got >>>> the masscheck results via email. Sadly all the boxes which did this are >>>> dead. >>> actually, I _did_ come up with one of those, but nobody used it :( >>> >>> http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/PreflightByMail >> Did you announce it to the users list? > > nope -- on the dev list. A couple of SARE folks responded saying > "cool!" though. > >>> btw, don't bother trying it now -- I turned it off again after it was >>> never used. >> Ooo. Can it be resurrected? >> >> But this is only part of the problem. How difficult is it for third parties >> to submit rules for review and inclusion in the base ruleset without >> necessarily joining the dev group? Is posting the proposed rule to bugzilla >> sufficient? > > getting the rule into the "rulesrc" area is all that's needed. it > gets auto-promoted > based on linting ok, getting good performance etc.... > > it's a hell of a lot easier to use SVN these days though. Would it > really be impossible > to do it that way? that's as simple as > > svn up > edit rulesrc/sandbox/jm/20_whatever.cf > svn commit rulesrc/sandbox/jm/20_whatever.cf > > and wait ;) >
Is it possible to get SVN access just to the sandboxes though? I'd be happy to submit rules for testing. My membership of the -dev list was after the PreflightByMail announcement and I would have definitely used it had I been aware of it. Cheers, Steve.
