Re: Policy for 3.1 rule updates?

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

Theo Van Dinter writes:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 04:01:03PM -0500, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote:
> > Do we have a rule scoring policy for rule updates yet?
> 
> Not really.  I figured periodically (monthly?) we'd end up calling
> on nightly/weekly submitters to run a special version (say, 3.1 with
> the updates installed,) that we would then process as a normal score
> generation run.  Alternatively, I was thinking we would make Sunday a day
> to do the "special" run, ala: M-F nightly, Sa weekly, Su weekly-release.
> 
> I was thinking that the inclusion of new rules with rough estimates for score
> would work to start, then let the score generation happen as usual to set
> everything up appropriately.

Yes -- I think we can wing it to start with, with vaguely "appropriate"
scores chosen by hand.   As stuff arises, we can deal with it then.

I'd be keen to avoid an overcomplicated score-selection system, where the
simple thing will work.

--j.