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* document about priorityjob vs reprocessing

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Peter Bengtsson committed Apr 11, 2016
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minidump_stackwalk program are stored. The actual files are stored
with a .jsonz extension.

**Priority job**: A processing request (similar ``Reprocessing``) that has
higher priority. The order of processing across all queues is: Priority,
Standard, Reprocess, Priority. One crash from each at a time.
Then it reverses the order and goes through those four again.
And reverses again. Rinse and repeat. Priority jobs are processing of
raw crashes that have never been processed. Crashes are put on this queue
only when a processed crash is requested from the UI and the
associated Raw crash has not been processed in the past.

**Processor**: the Socorro application in charge of applying
minidump_stackwalk to queued jobs. See :ref:`processor-chapter`

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**Reporter**: another name for the :ref:`ui-chapter`

**Reprocessing**: Telling, via rabbitmq, to take a Crash ID, and fetch
its Raw JSON file and process it and submit the Processed JSON file and save it.

**Skip List**: lists of signature regular expressions used in generating a
crash's overall signature in the :ref:`processor-chapter`. see
:ref:`signaturegeneration-chapter`
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