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deliciousbrains
Is this project dead?
@A5hleyRich There are issues going back more than a year, do you need someone to take over maintenance of this project?
@dskvr Just go ahead and fork it or use one of the 40 existing forks as of me writing this. 😄
Hmmm. I just discovered this and am wondering what the use case difference to https://github.com/Prospress/action-scheduler is. AS is incorporated into several commercial products with momentum, so unlikely to die any time soon.
@lkraav thank you for sharing https://github.com/Prospress/action-scheduler -- indeed this project looks well maintained. However, it seems to be strictly for scheduling jobs in the future to run one time or scheduling recurring jobs on specific dates / times. I could be wrong, but I think WP Background Processing is just a background process that runs as soon as it can. Although the mechanics of bernard are very different from WP Background Processing, they seem to be similar in that they just execute jobs to be run offloaded in the background without a scheduling component to what they do.
In short, I am not too sure if Action Scheduler is a perfect substitute for WP Background Processing seeing as Action Scheduler mainly handles scheduled jobs and not just a job that run's asynchronously to the web process (apache) which enqueues the job for asynchronous execution.
Interesting, one of the maintainers of the project claims it can kinda function like an asynchronous process without any scheduling concept associated to it.
Interesting, one of the maintainers of the project claims it can kinda function like an asynchronous process without any scheduling concept associated to it.
Yup, time() schedule sounds good to me.
@lkraav @robskrob wow this is hella good timing. At work we finally got to a point where we need to start doing this kind of processing and as much as I trust DB I was concerned this project was dead. I think I'm going to give aciton-scheduler a try.
All, fwiw, the team behind action-scheduler, Prospress, was recently acquired by Automattic. It's already being used in WooCommerce with plans to use it more in the future. It's probably the best, most supported alternative currently out there.
We're currently working on a new version of the library, so clearing the decks of ancient issues like this one.
