This would be great. I was originally skeptical about the idea of using cronjob because this would make people without the ability to configure a cronjob a second class citizen. People who use owncloud in a shared hosting environment can't often run no cronjobs. But I think it´s fine if we could use long-polling as a fallback. Very cool idea :-)
Frank On 22.07.2012, at 17:38, Jakob Sack <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > after the sprint in Stuttgart I talked with Jörn Friedrich Dreyer about the > background job problem. If I remember correctly the two most important > suggestions were (a) using cron and (b) using long time polling/ajax. > > I'd suggest extending (or rewriting) "my" background jobs app so that it can > make use of both cron jobs and ajax polling. Then the app can choose the best > option out of: > 1) using cron (++) > 2) using some internet cron service (open the page x every y minutes) (+) > 3) long time polling when the users are on the page (-) > > The reasons for my rating: A normal cron job does not rely on the limitations > that apache might have (memory limit, time limit). An internet cron service > has these limitations, but it works 24/7. Option 3 runs only when users are > online which is bad if you rely on having certain tasks done at a given time. > > What do you think? > Regards, > > Jakob > > Am 22.07.2012 17:13, schrieb Alessandro Cosentino: >> I need a cron job system for news app too. The use case is the >> following: if the user doesn't check the reader for a long time, he >> might miss some items that might have been in the feed and then been >> removed. This happens with feeds that have frequent updates. >> >> I know that Jakob is working on this. >> >> Alessandro >> >> On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Georg Ehrke >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> I was just wondering if someone is working on a kind of cronjob system for >>> ownCloud. >>> I know that there is the background job app by Jakob, but this app requires >>> an entry in the crontab file. >>> I am currently working on remote calendars and it would be quite useful to >>> have a cron job system, to automatically update the remote calendars. >>> It would actually work without a cronjob system, if you update them if the >>> user is using the calendar, but a cronjob system would make it more >>> comfortable. >>> >>> But there are some planned features, that wouldn't work without a cronjob >>> system. >>> An Example would be an automatic e-mail reminder before an event starts. >>> >>> Does anybody has a clue on how I could solve this problem without making an >>> entry in the crontab file a hard dependency? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Georg Ehrke >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Owncloud mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud >> _______________________________________________ >> Owncloud mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud > > _______________________________________________ > Owncloud mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud _______________________________________________ Owncloud mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud
