Is a distcc style plugin for professional workgroups an idea whose time has come?
jrockway: The plugin should be smart about avoiding the user noticing that other users are compiling software on their machine. Locking itself to a single processor is a good start, and refusing jobs if the user on the local machine is compiling code or doing some other processor intensive activity.The plugin should do this?  How about letting the OS do it, that's the whole point of an OS after all :)  Just nice down the distcc thing and let the OS do the rest.  (Hint: the OS' algorithm is probably better than the one you proposed, so why reimplement it?)