Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2020 15:53:07 -0500 From: Nick Wolff <darkfiberiru@gmail.com> To: Josh Aas <josh@kflag.net> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: updating cron and atrun Message-ID: <CACxAneBBtc3fTLK3B21w4Qv3ZTvSQ=2DEOWAWSAMuxwsue8Naw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAJzSF_7N4A-_6LfjivWRirNkTHv3ANWu%2BBX6g1UOKqdYmDZZNA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAJzSF_7N4A-_6LfjivWRirNkTHv3ANWu%2BBX6g1UOKqdYmDZZNA@mail.gmail.com>
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John, Thanks for taking the time to do the research and review. On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 9:19 AM Josh Aas <josh@kflag.net> wrote: > I was looking for a way to contribute to FreeBSD and I decided to look > into the cron/atrun project listed on this page: > > https://wiki.freebsd.org/IdeasPage#Improve_cron.288.29_and_atrun.288.29 > > I looked into the current code, commits from the past decade, and the > lineage of other versions of cron to see if there is a reasonable plan > for updating FreeBSD’s cron based on another version. It doesn't seem > like there are any particularly productive new path to take here. ISC > cron is old and unmaintained, and I don’t think NetBSD or OpenBSD cron > is interesting enough to be worth entirely rebasing on. On top of > that, FreeBSD cron seems to have some FreeBSD-specific functionality > that we’d still need to maintain or “upstream” elsewhere. > > I’d recommend continuing with the current status quo - keep FreeBSD’s > version of cron and occasionally pull in security/stability patches as > applicable from OpenBSD or NetBSD. The other options are a lot of work > for little (if any) gain. Happy to hear other opinions though. > > Integrating atrun into cron might be nice but isn’t very interesting > IMO. Seems very possible that the cost of that churn outweighs the > benefit. I’d love to hear more about why this is a particularly good > idea if people believe it is. Maybe I’m missing something. > > If people agree I’d recommend removing the cron and atrun suggestion > on the Ideas Page. Maintaining that page seems like a pain though, > might I recommend keeping track of these ideas as bugzilla bugs, > tagged with something like “ideaslist”? Then you can just link to that > search. > > -- > Josh Aas > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-arch@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arch > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arch-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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