[MDL-25499] Centralise management of all types of cron tasks with registration, scheduling, parallel task conflicts(blocking) and running once off tasks, all using an administration screen. - Moodle Tracker

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Type: New Feature
Status: Closed
Priority: Major
Resolution: Fixed
Affects Version/s: 2.1, 2.6
Fix Version/s: 2.7
Component/s: Administration
Labels:
- triaged

Affected Branches:
MOODLE_21_STABLE, MOODLE_26_STABLE
Fixed Branches:
MOODLE_27_STABLE

Description

The document proposing this is http://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Scheduled_Tasks_Proposal.

related bugs

FS locking ~~MDL-21110~~

Attachments

Issue Links

blocks

MDL-52846 Deprecation of legacy cron

Closed

caused a regression

MDL-44604 task trouble when uninstalling plugins

Closed

Discovered while testing

MDL-45527 cron task fails : \\core\\task\\delete_unconfirmed_users_task

Closed

has a non-specific relationship to

MDL-45932 Implement Scheduled Task for IMS Enrolment plugin

Closed

has been marked as being related by

MDL-42965 Badge cron code is very inefficient and holds up cron

Closed

MDL-17783 Multiple cron instance running parallely

Closed

will help resolve

MDL-19275 Forum cron sends duplicate digest emails

Closed

MDL-3689 An error() anywhere can prevent cron from completing ...

Closed

(1 has been marked as being related by, 2 will help resolve)

Sub-Tasks

1.	Add a generic locking framework to Moodle	Closed	Damyon Wiese
2.	Write the 'black magic' that hands out the next task to be run for a given cron process	Closed	Damyon Wiese
3.	Rewrite cron.php to use the black magic	Closed	Damyon Wiese
4.	Migrate all the existing cronjobs to the new system	Closed	Damyon Wiese
5.	Cron rewrite: Write screens to allow administrators to reschedule tasks	Closed	Damyon Wiese
6.	Write code to transfer between unix-cron-syntax and user-friendly syntax (and vice versa)	Closed	Aparup Banerjee
7.	Write code to capture requests to schedule once off tasks	Closed	Damyon Wiese
8.	Evaluate integration of event API to once off tasks	Closed	Unassigned
9.	Test new cron management system thoroughly. Ensure unit tests in place to catch regressions.	Closed	Unassigned
10.	Use new locking system for cache locking.	Closed	Damyon Wiese

Activity

People

Assignee:: Damyon Wiese

Reporter:: Aparup Banerjee

Participants:: Aparup Banerjee, Bei Chapman, Damyon Wiese, David Mudrák (@mudrd8mz), Gisela Hillenbrand, Hubert Chathi, Marina Glancy, Mary Cooch, Michael Hughes, Paul Nicholls, Penny Leach, Petr Skoda, Rex Lorenzo, Simon Coggins, Tim Hunt, Tyler Bannister

Component watchers:: David Woloszyn, Huong Nguyen, Jake Dallimore, Meirza, Michael Hawkins, Raquel Ortega, Safat Shahin, Stevani Andolo

Votes:: 13 Vote for this issue

Watchers:: 28 Start watching this issue

Dates

Created:: 02/Dec/10 9:26 PM

Updated:: 16/May/16 5:02 PM

Resolved:: 22/Jul/14 12:53 AM

Fix Release Date:: 12/May/14