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Affected Branches:
MOODLE_21_STABLE
Fixed Branches:
MOODLE_27_STABLE
Pull from Repository:
git://github.com/damyon/moodle.git
Pull Main Branch:
~~MDL-25505~~-master
Pull Main Diff URL:
https://github.com/damyon/moodle/compare/45fdcb7ce3b1a652dd59d0ac0695d012baf190a8...MDL-25505-master
Documentation link:
http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Task_API
Testing Instructions:

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Upgrade a site to the new cron system. Set cron to run every minute and verify that the tasks in the admin scheduled tasks page are running only when scheduled. Change some schedules for some tasks and verify they obey the new schedule. Reset them to their default schedule and verify they obey the default schedule again. Run all the unit tests. Verify that forum posts are still getting mailed. Verify that students still get mailed about assignment feedback.

Check the web server logs for errors messages coming from any scheduled task.

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Upgrade a site to the new cron system. Set cron to run every minute and verify that the tasks in the admin scheduled tasks page are running only when scheduled. Change some schedules for some tasks and verify they obey the new schedule. Reset them to their default schedule and verify they obey the default schedule again. Run all the unit tests. Verify that forum posts are still getting mailed. Verify that students still get mailed about assignment feedback. Check the web server logs for errors messages coming from any scheduled task.

we will need some mock ups for creating the ui for the management interface.

blocks

MDL-25502 Write the 'black magic' that hands out the next task to be run for a given cron process

MDL-25503 Rewrite cron.php to use the black magic

MDL-25504 Migrate all the existing cronjobs to the new system

MDL-25507 Write code to capture requests to schedule once off tasks

Discovered while testing

MDL-44393 Passing invalid value to schedule a task result in invalid notification

will help resolve

MDL-44265 make auth ldap participate in the regular running cron job

(1 will help resolve)

Participants:: Aparup Banerjee, CiBoT, Damyon Wiese, Dan Poltawski, David Monllaó, Eloy Lafuente (stronk7), Martin Dougiamas, Mary Cooch, Petr Skoda, Rajesh Taneja, Tim Hunt