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[Julian Edwards <julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 24 Apr 2012 09:21:55 Aaron Bentley wrote:
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> On 12-04-23 10:52 PM, Julian Edwards wrote:
> > On Monday 23 April 2012 14:25:22 Aaron Bentley wrote:
> >> I'm working to convert all Jobs so they can run under Celery
> >> (not including build farm jobs).
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> > Good, we need to remove all trace of Job from BFJs. They are not
> > Jobs and it was a mistake to use the Job code originally.
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> To clarify, I'm not planning to do anything to BFJs.  They will still
> share the code with Jobs that they shared before I began (which is
> mostly model definition and some state transition rules).

Don't worry I wasn't expecting you to change them :)

> I think that BFJs could *become* Jobs, but that's a task for another
> time, if we decide we want that.

I want the exact opposite, they are totally unlike Jobs and have caused no end 
of pain trying to integrate them as such.

Cheers.