Bug#1073810: ITP: golang-github-cloudflare-backoff -- Backoff timer shared between several projects.

["Reinhard Tartler" <siretart@tauware.de>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Reinhard Tartler <siretart@tauware.de>

* Package name    : golang-github-cloudflare-backoff
  Version         : 0.0~git20161212.647f3cd-1
  Upstream Author : Cloudflare
* URL             : https://github.com/cloudflare/backoff
* License         : BSD-2-clause
  Programming Lang: Go
  Description     : Backoff timer shared between several projects.

 Go implementation of "Exponential Backoff And Jitter"
 .
 This package implements the backoff strategy described in the AWS
 Architecture Blog article "Exponential Backoff And Jitter"
 (http://www.awsarchitectureblog.com/2015/03/backoff.html). Essentially,
 the backoff has an interval time.Duration; the *nth* call to backoff
 will return an a time.Duration that is *2 n *interval*. If jitter is
 enabled (which is the default behaviour), the duration is a random value
 between 0 and *2 n * interval*. The backoff is configured with a maximum
 duration that will not be exceeded; e.g., by default, the longest
 duration returned is backoff.DefaultMaxDuration.