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[Gary Poster <gary.poster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 24, 2010, at 12:17 PM, Cody A.W. Somerville wrote:

> Hello,
> 
>  I know this has been discussed before but I want to bring it up again because I think its important: messaging/task queue system. Just imagine a world where doing something on launchpad meant it happened almost instantly instead of waiting for the next cronjob to fire! :) Imagine a world where you didn't have to write a schema patches for every little type of job you wanted to create but instead just had to write some good old' python code! Imagine a world where we didn't need our LOASs to be running scripts on production servers because we wanted a task or job to occur. Imagine a world where different launchpad applications could easily pass messages and communicate with each other without requiring the shackles of strong coupling. Wouldn't all that be pretty nice? 
> 
>  Does anybody who is familiar with the original initiative have any information on why its became stalled? What can we do to get this moving again?

It was regarded as a nice-to-have, lower in priority than the other tasks on our collective plates.  We are interested in it eventually.  I wouldn't be surprised if we had time to think about it in the second half of this year.

Gary