launchpad-dev team mailing list archive

[Curtis Hovey <curtis.hovey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 11:43 -0400, James Westby wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 06:46:59 +0200, Robert Collins <robertc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I'm not entirely sure myself, however there appear to be quite a few
> > frequency based things around that are intrinsically event driven, and
> > they aren't all 5 years old :). There isn't - sadly - a single bug /
> > design aspect that I can point to and say 'if that were better,
> > everyone would reach for this tool first'. If I were to make some
> > guesses - the system (AIUI) requires a bunch of manual work to provide
> > a robust debuggable 'do things later' mechanism, on a case by case
> > basis. So adding a table is pretty high friction; writing new UI's for
> > the same table is pretty high friction.
> 
> To get a feel for what it is like to use the job system when there isn't
> an appropriate job type take a look at
> 
>   https://dev.launchpad.net/Foundations/JobSystem

Thank you everyone. This rocks!

-- 
__Curtis C. Hovey_________
http://launchpad.net/

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part