Show thread🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦Apr 11

@santiago FWIW, the automated rescoring that we (the SA Project of #TheASF) do for the default rule channel works on the assumption that the threshold is 5. If you reduce the threshold you should put in proactive work to improve (i.e. reduce) the scores of mail that you value.

E.g. I use a level of 4 & I use the supplementary KAM rules channel. I can only do that because the vast majority of the legit mail on my server is aimed at "more_spam_to" addresses.

#SpamAssassin

🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦Mar 22
Every time I read anything about governance in #FOSS orgs that's not about #TheASF I am appalled.
Not that we're perfect, but we have managed to avoid being the creature of an insular self-appointed clique. We just elected a brand new board, as we do annually, including Apache OGs & members who've never been on the Board before. "We" is the membership, which is not purchasable with anything other than positive community-aware personal participation in ASF projects. https://nondeterministic.computer/@mjg59/114201252710943424
Matthew Garrett (@mjg59@nondeterministic.computer)

Like many nonprofits, membership of the @osi@opensource.org board of directors is technically down to the existing board choosing to appoint new directors. OSI "membership" (in the sense that donors can become "members" of the organisation) isn't a thing that's defined by the by-laws, it's a process that the directors have chosen to adopt. As such, the elections that members participate in are just guidance for the board's decisions, rather than anything they're obliged to respect.

Nondeterministic Computer
Apache GroovyMar 19
Using Gatherers with @ApacheGroovy (updated for JDK 24):
https://groovy.apache.org/blog/groovy-gatherers
#groovylang #gatherers #streams #TheASF
The Apache Groovy programming language - Blogs - Using Gatherers with Groovy

This post looks at using Gatherers (JEP 461, JEP 473, JEP 485) with Groovy.

🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦Mar 18

One thing I absolutely LOVE about #TheASF is how we do governance. Not efficiently, but properly. Hundreds of members with thousands of viewpoints. And yet, we always eventually figure out processes that work for a consensus acceptance of outcomes, if not unanimous agreement.

It can be a lot, the processes (many run by our robot friend STeVe) can feel clunky, but we mostly don't revisit decided outcomes or go ad hominem.

I used to love the USA.

#NotReallyASubToot

Show thread🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦Mar 1

Apparently it was a broader problem, because no, I was NOT the only one to notice, just the only one to open a Jira ticket.

BECAUSE IF THERE’S NO TICKET THERE'S NO PROBLEM!!!

Clearly ASF Infra needs more staff. See my prior post if you live in Europe.

#SpamAssassin #TheASF #SpamAssassin #Sysadminnery

🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦Mar 1

Dunno if @TheASF or @theasf actually has anyone behind them to post this, but as it is a public job posting and M&P should be posting them to "our social media" today, it can’t hurt for me to do it too.

#TheASF is hiring an infrastructure admin!

https://www.indeed.com/job/infrastructure-systems-administrator-036d1005bc664243

Infra has expressed that they need European timezone coverage, so US/CA/AU/NZ/IN/CN/HK folks are out of luck. US-sanctioned countries also would be a fatal flaw.

#ASF #Apache #FediHire #GetFediHired

Apache GroovyFeb 28
Classifying Iris Flowers with Apache Groovy, Apache Wayang and TensorFlow:
https://groovy.apache.org/blog/wayang-tensorflow
Platform-agnostic deep learning.
#groovylang #deeplearning #tensorflow #theASF
The Apache Groovy programming language - Blogs - Using TensorFlow from Apache Wayang

This post looks at using TensorFlow and Apache Wayang with Apache Groovy.

🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦Feb 27

Is it really possible for svn.apache.org to be down and only the #SpamAssassin utility host and me to notice?

#TheASF #SpamAssassin #Sysadminnery

Apache GroovyFeb 25
Using Apache Netbeans with ApacheGroovy
https://groovy.apache.org/blog/netbeans
#ApacheCommons #TheASF
#groovylang #numbers_fractions
The Apache Groovy programming language - Blogs - Using Apache NetBeans with Apache Groovy

This post looks at using NetBeans and Groovy.

Gary GregoryFeb 14

The Apache Commons VFS Project team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Commons VFS Project 2.10.0.

Apache Commons VFS is a Virtual File System library for Java 8 or later.

https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-vfs/

#theASF #ApacheCommons

Commons Virtual File System – Apache Commons VFS