Re: [orbit-dev] New orbit bundle for cron jobs

[Roland Grunberg <rgrunber@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> I am committer on the EASE project for eclipse scripting. We want to add
> functionality to execute scripts in a timely manner, similar to cron jobs.
> 
> Therefore we would like to push a cron library to orbit:
> https://github.com/jmrozanec/cron-utils

Thanks for posting to get the discussion started.

> The lib is available under the Apache 2.0 license, so that should be
> fine. Before I start going through the legal process and raising a CQ I
> wanted to ask if we should aim to push the library as a whole o if we
> should extract relevant parts for the EASE project out of it and push
> only those.

If the project itself ships smaller components of cron-utils and you're
only using those, then it's fine to request just those, but if cron-utils
is just shipped as one component then we don't want to be modifying that.

While it is a possible to modify things, we generally want to ship
something that is as close as possible to what the project itself is
shipping.

I see cron-utils 5.0.5 is about 117KB so I think that should be fine.

 
> My next question would be if there are active committers taking over
> this library or if I should apply for committer status to maintain it on
> orbit as suggested in the FAQ. Either way would be fine for me.

I guess if anyone has an interest in maintaining this they could make it
known now and help you with the process. How frequently do you think you'd
need to update this component ? cron-utils seems fairly new and is starting
to have multiple releases per month. If I get some time, I'm open to
pushing this in, but if you see this being something that will need updating
frequently, I would probably recommend requesting to become a committer.


Cheers,
-- 
Roland Grunberg