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[Gary Poster <gary.poster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 09/21/2012 03:54 PM, Robert Collins wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 2:41 AM, William Grant
> <william.grant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> WebOps have today finished setting up parallel testing in buildbot.
>> buildbot-poll has been updated to know about the new builders, and I've
>> confirmed that [testfix] and automatic stable merging etc. work fine.
>> Nothing should have changed except that builds now take 35 minutes
>> rather than 6.5 hours.
> 
> \o/ Thanks for helping with this.

As I said on IRC, yes, thank you, William and Liam.

> Folk that are interested in taking things further on this and some
> related aspects...
>  - we could look at ec2test using the parallel runner

FWIW, one approach to doing this that attracted me was first doing

https://dev.launchpad.net/LEP/LaunchpadJujuCharmForDevs

and then doing

https://dev.launchpad.net/LEP/ParallelEC2Command

Gary