adding docs for the 0.8 release

Author: Matt George

HISTORY.md

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+## 0.8 (2010-04-24)
+* added the pyres_manager and the horde module. This allows a more prefork like model for processing jobs.
+* setproctitle usage. Allows better process titles when viewing via ps
+* ability to delete and requeue failed items
+
 ## 0.7.5.1 (2010-03-18)
 * fixed the pyres_scheduler script
 * changed download link to remove v from version number

docs/source/horde.rst

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+Prefork Manager
+===============
+
+Sometimes the fork for every job method of processing can be a bit too slow and
+take up too many resources. Pyres provides an alternative to the pyres_worker through
+the pyres_manager script and the horde module.
+
+The pyres_manager script is very similar to the pyres_worker. However, instead
+of forking a child for every job, the manager takes advantage of the multiprocessing
+module in python 2.6 (backported to 2.5 as well) and forks off a pool of children
+at startup time. These children then query the redis queue and perform the necessary work.
+It is the managers job to manage the pool via signals or a command queue on the redis
+server.
+
+ex::
+
+    pyres_manager --pool=5 queue_one,queue_two
+    

docs/source/index.rst

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 	class
 	tests
 	failures
+	horde
 
 
 Indices and tables