[browsershots-factories] Priority processing for your screenshots

[Johann C. Rocholl]

Hi factory admins,

Browsershots is running low on active screenshot factories.

Do you think automatic emails would help? I could implement an alert
system to send mail when a factory stops polling the server for jobs.
But I would probably make it wait for an hour because it could just be
a load spike on your machine (e.g. apt-get upgrade).

I've also been thinking about incentives for volunteers to keep their
screenshot factory running. What do you think about the following
idea?

If your screenshot factory has uploaded at least 100 screenshots in
the last 24 hours and at least 10 screenshots in the last hour, you
will get priority processing for your own screenshot requests.

Priority processing means your requests come before all other requests
in the queue, so you'd get screenshots within one minute rather than
30 minutes. Because Browsershots doesn't have user authentication on
the web interface yet, priority processing would be given to a domain
name of your choice.

Thoughts? Ideas? Your feedback is wildly appreciated.

Cheers,
Johann