On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Jim Pryor <lists+arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Allan McRae <allan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
