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[Julian Edwards <julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 11 May 2011 04:13:57 Robert Collins wrote:
> About 11 months ago I waved the fiat bit and said 'lets use rabbit'.
> I'm glad to announce that I've just landed the core infrastructure to
> use rabbitmq in tests in devel.

\o/

> I'm going to land a layer because rabbit takes ~3 seconds to setup,
> and I suspect we want an amqlib test fake in the fullness of time.

I filed a bug on testtools some time ago about having persistent fixtures so 
when we have that hopefully we can get rid of layers and use fixtures.

> Of course, as I have ~0 rabbit mq experience, this is just the start
> of a wonderful learning experience for us.
> 
> I suspect an easy migration target if folk want one would be to
> migrate all the fire-and-forget jobs to trigger via rabbit (leaving
> the payload in the db), by hooking a 'do it now' message into the
> post-transaction actions in zope.

I have some evil ideas for Soyuz.  >:)