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First off, the sandboxes idea greatly increases the number of people who can check rules into SVN. Secondly, the barriers to entry for getting a sandboxes account are much lower.
Some bulletpoints from discussion, needs expanding:
sandbox:
- each user gets their own sandbox as discussed on RulesProjMoreInput
- checked-in rules in the sandboxes are mass-checked in the nightly mass-checks
- to migrate a rule from "sandbox" (dev) to "core" (production) ruleset uses C-T-R; ie. votes are not required in advance
- C-T-R to migrate from "sandbox" to "extra" ruleset
Rules that get promoted from a "sandbox" to "core" should pass the following criteria:
- S/O ratio of 0.95 or greater (or 0.05 or less for nice rules)
- > 0.25% of target type hit (e.g. spam for non-nice rules)
- < 1.00% of non-target type hit (e.g. ham for non-nice rules)
- not too slow
- TODO: criteria for overlap with existing rules?
A ruleset in the "extra" set would have different criteria.
We can also vote for extraordinary stuff that doesn't fit into those criteria...
private list for mass-checks:
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Getting rules from the sandbox, into the distribution, is dealt with on RulesProjSandboxes, in the 'Rule Promotion' section on down.