Nightly Mass-Check Runs

What?

Nightly mass-check runs are currently the primary vehicle for evaluating the quality of rules checked into SpamAssassin. Every night contributors check out a specific revision of SpamAssassin from SVN and run MassCheck on their corpora. They upload their results to an rsync server and these are parsed by a set of scripts on DanielQuinlan's server and the results are available at http://www.pathname.com/~corpus

How?

The corpus-nightly script in the masses/ directory of the SpamAssassin tree can be used to set this up. It's probably not very well documented, (WeLoveVolunteers), but it should work. You'll also need to ask for RsyncAccounts and make sure you get a "nightly" account rather than a release-time account.

How? (in more detail)

Get ahold of http://rsync.spamassassin.org/$VERS-versions.txt, where
$VERS is either "nightly" or "weekly". "nightly" is updated a little before 0900 UTC Sunday through Friday. "weekly" is updated at the same time on Saturdays, and is meant to be a net-enabled run. ie: wait until at least 0900 UTC before trying to do a corpus run. The above files are also available via the standard rsync system.

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