def estimate_duration(self):
        """
        Estimate duration (timedelta) for this task.

        Estimate the average length of time we expect between this task's
        start and end times.

        :returns: deferred that when fired returns a timedelta object for the
                  estimated timedelta, or the actual timedelta, or None if we
                  could not estimate a time for this task method.
        """
        if self.completion_ts:
            # Task is already complete. Return the exact duration timedelta.
            return defer.succeed(self.duration)
        if not self.package:
            # TODO: estimate duration some other way besides
            # getAverageBuildDuration. For example, we could estimate
            # completion time for newRepo/createrepo tasks by looking back at
            # the the past couple of tasks for this tag.
            return defer.succeed(None)
        if self.method == 'tagBuild':
            # These are pretty short. Haphazardly guess the max SLEEPTIME plus
            # a few seconds.
            tag_build_time = SLEEPTIME + timedelta(seconds=15)
            return defer.succeed(tag_build_time)
        return average_build_duration(self.connection, self.package)
Estimate duration (timedelta) for this task.

        Estimate the average length of time we expect between this task's
        start and end times.

        :returns: deferred that when fired returns a timedelta object for the
                  estimated timedelta, or the actual timedelta, or None if we
                  could not estimate a time for this task method.