added celery-based async tasks

README.txt

@@ -5,3 +5,14 @@ LICENSE: this code is released under the GPL v3 or later.
 
 NEEDS:
 - http://github.com/openid/python-openid
+- rabbitmq 1.8
+-- http://www.rabbitmq.com/debian.html
+-- update the deb source
+-- apt-get install rabbitmq-server
+
+- celery 2.0.2 and django-celery 2.0.2 for async jobs
+-- http://celeryq.org
+-- apt-get install python-setuptools
+-- easy_install celery
+-- easy_install django-celery
+

helios @ 50eaae0e

-Subproject commit 029425d7535a357cb81a0a6d8617ea8028495512
+Subproject commit 50eaae0e1b9c30d52798d4fc65a8800a7aa19ecb

settings.py.sample

@@ -77,6 +77,9 @@ INSTALLED_APPS = (
     'django.contrib.contenttypes',
     'django.contrib.sessions',
     'django.contrib.sites',
+    ## needed for queues
+    'djcelery',
+    ## HELIOS stuff
     'auth',
     'helios',
     'server_ui',
@@ -130,3 +133,12 @@ logging.basicConfig(
     format = '%(asctime)s %(levelname)s %(message)s'
 )
     
+# set up django-celery
+BROKER_HOST = "localhost"
+BROKER_PORT = 5672
+BROKER_USER = "guest"
+BROKER_PASSWORD = "guest"
+BROKER_VHOST = "/"
+
+import djcelery
+djcelery.setup_loader()