On 08.03.19 20:38, Michael Stone wrote: > On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 08:01:35PM +0100, Christian Kastner wrote: >> I intended to post a transition proposal here soon, but it's not ready >> yet... but long story short: I believe we would be far better off moving >> to cronie than maintaining our old fork. > > One question worth asking is which distributions plan to maintain cron > moving forward--will some of the systemd-focused ones start dropping it > in favor of timers? (No point in migrating to fedora's cronie, for > example, if they stop using it in a year or two.)
Indeed. I wouldn't be surprised if that happened for bullseye+1, I'm almost counting on it. OpenBSD and FreeBSD maintain their own forks, so we can probably count them out WRT a systemd replacement. I've looked at the cronie codebase and Fedora has put in a really considerable amount effort, as RedHat needs something robust enough for the enterprise market, I guess. IMO, that shows long-term commitment. Christian