Re: SA-UPDATE How often new updates?

[Justin Mason <jm...@jmason.org>]

Matt Kettler writes:
> John Fleming wrote:
> > I hadn't paid attention for awhile, and now I'm noticing that 
> > SA-Update exited with code 1 every time it ran (daily) for the last 
> > several weeks at least that I've been paying attention again.  
> > Normal?  Is there a list of when updates have come out?
> They come out whenever needed. Sometimes that means several times in one 
> day, sometimes it can be months between updates. It depends on what the 
> spammers are doing, and if anyone has come up with a really good rule to 
> fill in a weakness in the existing ruleset.
> 
> If you want to see when updates have been made, look at the tags in SVN
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/spamassassin/tags/
> 
> The sa-update tags have a number at the end, the start of which is a 
> date stamp in yyyymmdd format
> 
> ie: the two most recent for the 3.2 branch are:
> 
> # sa-update_3.2_20080114123639/
> # sa-update_3.2_20080114144817/
> 
> Which were both made on January 14th, 2008. I suspect the rest is a 
> timestamp, but I'm not entirely sure. If it is, the two were pushed a 
> little over 2 hours apart.
> 
> The 3.3 branch has had more recent updates, but at present that's still 
> a development branch, so the devs are more free to push rules to it that 
> are somewhat experimental.

Also, 3.3 currently automatically performs rule promotion, direct from the
rule development sandboxes, without any manual steps.  I'm hoping we can
keep this working once 3.3.0 is released...

--j.