[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Cron

[Dan McGee]

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Jim Pryor
<lists+arch-general at jimpryor.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 09:52:45AM -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>> >> Paul Mattal wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> We've got several bugs relating to choosing a new default cron daemon,
>> >>> and/or supporting other alternatives.
>> >>
>> >> <snip>
>> >>
>> >> I thought we decided on fcron with the small adjustment/script needed to
>> >> support /etc/cron.d in the last round of discussion about this.  bcron was
>> >> also popular (+1 from me...) but then we need an anacron replacement too
>> >> (i.e. fcron).
>> >>
>> >> Aaron has repeatedly called for someone to deal with this and we have had a
>> >> total of zero volunteers to do so...  So if you are going to do this then it
>> >> would be great. (also have a look at mailman in svn trunk if you have time
>> >> :P )
>> >
>> > Allan is correct here. We looked it over and based on the responses
>> > from all devs at the time, decided that fcron is the best in terms of
>> > modernizing our cron.
>> >
>> > If anyone would like to upgrade our cron to something better, let's go
>> > with fcron. Please check the mail archives and bug reports for all the
>> > discussion about alternative crons and why fcron was decided. I don't
>> > recall all the reasons, but I know they are all there.
>>
>> Though, I must admit, I did not see this email until after I replied.
>> yacron was not evaluated when we looked into this...
>
> Hi this is the author of yacron again.
>
> I've just heard from Matt Dillon, he says he's happy for me to take over
> development and maintainership of dcron.
>
> So what I'll do is create a release version of yacron, and rename it to
> dcron 4.0. Of course that doesn't mean Arch has to keep using dcron; you
> may still decide fcron is better for core. But if you do want to stay
> with dcron, its development will now continue with the features I had
> forked as yacron.

The new maintainer of the defacto cron program is an Arch user? This
puts us well on the path to world domination!

-Dan