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[Julian Edwards <julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 11 August 2010 23:09:46 Michael Hudson wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:34:27 -0500, Edwin Grubbs 
<edwin.grubbs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I think this shows that if we run everything through a queue, there
> > needs to be a way to run really quick tasks in parallel with really
> > big tasks. You wouldn't want a single POFile export for a project to
> > be stuck behind the processing of 75k files for all of ubuntu. There
> > could be a slow lane and a fast lane. If the jobs have a method for
> > estimating the length of time reasonably well, we could also have a
> > super-fast lane, where the page decides not to queue the task at all.
> 
> https://dev.launchpad.net/CodeTeam/ExpressLane is an idea of Aaron's in
> this direction.

That seems awfully similar to the build farm's scoring mechanism.