See PEP 328[1] for details. This feature was introduced in Python 2.5 and
will become mandatory in Python 3.
[1]: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0328
(imported from commit 7444eeba8a08d5f91b94c7921848f2274979bd76)
To work around the issue we're having with queue draining between
parallel blocking connections, use the same rabbitmq queue for both
activity and presence events, keyed on a 'type' flag in the message
itself.
(imported from commit 188e8fda1695734e52c5740db2195072cfc81479)
Note: When deploying, restarting the process-user-activity-commandline script is needed
(imported from commit 63ee795c9c7a7db4a40170cff5636dc1dd0b46a8)
Before this is deployed, we need to install rabbitmq and pika on the
target server (see the puppet part of this commit for how).
When this is deployed, we need to start the new user activity bot:
./manage.py process_user_activity
in the screen session on the relevant server, or user_activity logs
won't be processed (which will eventually result in all users getting
notifications about how their mirrors are out of date).
(imported from commit 44d605aca0290bef2c94fb99267e15e26b21673b)