New Development Idea

[Dan <a...@patnode.net>]

Hello,

I'm a SpamAssassin user wanting to join SpamAssassin development.  I  
have a new scoring approach I consider to be revolutionary, that I  
want to debut on SpamAssassin.  It would replace the current weight  
based scoring system, combing much greater accuracy with less work.

I'm a believer in open source but am unfamiliar with the SA-dev  
community, so I'm not sure where to begin.  I would appreciate advice  
and suggestions on how to proceed.

Thanks,
Dan

Re: New Development Idea

[Dan <a...@patnode.net>]

On Feb 13, 2007, at 12:20, Sidney Markowitz wrote:

>
> Dan wrote, On 14/2/07 8:59 AM:
>> I'm a believer in open source but am unfamiliar with the SA-dev
>> community, so I'm not sure where to begin.
>
> My opinion is that all you have to do is 1) read the developer  
> oriented
> pages on our wiki (start with the link for developers on the home page
> of http://wiki.spamassassin.org ) then 2) create an account on our
> Bugzilla database at http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org then 3) file  
> a CLA
> following the instructions you see when you register the Bugzilla
> account, which takes care of licensing issues allowing us to accept  
> your
> code submissions, then 4) open a ticket on Bugzilla of type RFE  
> (request
> for enhancement) in which you explain your revolutionary new scoring
> system and attach patches to our existing code base that implement it.
>
> Once you do that people could look at, try out, discuss, criticize,
> enhance, etc. until we have something ready to be committed if it gets
> that far.
>
> Do that enough times with enough good results and you will be in  
> danger
> of being invited to have commit access to the source code so you  
> can do
> the work of checking in your code instead of bothering us about it :-)
>
>  -- sidney


Awesome Sidney, thank you for all the detail.  I don't know how to  
code, but will take the process as far as a I can.

Regards,
Dan

Re: New Development Idea

[Sidney Markowitz <si...@sidney.com>]

Dan wrote, On 14/2/07 8:59 AM:
> I'm a believer in open source but am unfamiliar with the SA-dev  
> community, so I'm not sure where to begin.

My opinion is that all you have to do is 1) read the developer oriented
pages on our wiki (start with the link for developers on the home page
of http://wiki.spamassassin.org ) then 2) create an account on our
Bugzilla database at http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org then 3) file a CLA
following the instructions you see when you register the Bugzilla
account, which takes care of licensing issues allowing us to accept your
code submissions, then 4) open a ticket on Bugzilla of type RFE (request
for enhancement) in which you explain your revolutionary new scoring
system and attach patches to our existing code base that implement it.

Once you do that people could look at, try out, discuss, criticize,
enhance, etc. until we have something ready to be committed if it gets
that far.

Do that enough times with enough good results and you will be in danger
of being invited to have commit access to the source code so you can do
the work of checking in your code instead of bothering us about it :-)

 -- sidney