= Candidate technologies =
Some technologies to consider for the new task system

= Job system + RabbitMQ =

Extend the current job system to be a daemon that listens to RabbitMQ for notification of pending jobs.

= Job system + ampoule =

Extend the current job system to be a daemon that listens for AmpQ messages for notification of pending jobs.

= Celery =
http://celeryproject.org/

= Gearman =
http://gearman.org/

= Beanstalk =
http://kr.github.com/beanstalkd/

= Kestrel =
http://wiki.github.com/robey/kestrel/

= UEC =
We could use UEC to manage our worker machines, but this does not support non-virtualizable architectures.
However, it could allow us to take advantage of our internal UEC cloud, and might make it feasible for individuals to run their own buildfarms as a test.

= Landscape =
We could use Landscape to manage our worker machines.