[Owncloud] Background Jobs

[Jan-Christoph Borchardt]

That’s exactly the thing: It’s an admin setting which significantly
changes the user experience, so there’s all reason to remove it.

It’s not about not overwhelming admins with options – it’s about not
enabling them to deactivate something very useful.


On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Thomas Tanghus <thomas at tanghus.net> wrote:
> On Saturday 11 August 2012 14:08 Jan-Christoph Borchardt wrote:
>> On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Jakob Sack <mail at jakobsack.de> wrote:
>> > as far as I know there is no reason for completely disabling background
>> > jobs.
>> Ah sorry, I phrased it wrong. I didn’t mean »just use AJAX all the
>> time and remove the option for cron jobs«, I meant »AJAX is always
>> available and has no negative effect, so let’s just not have an option
>> to deactivate background jobs«.
>> Of course if the server supports it, cron should be used.
>>
>> TL;DR: Nice, let’s remove the option to deactivate background jobs.
>
> This is a system admin setting, so I see no reason for removing the option. It
> could be set to default to AJAX with the option to change it or disable it.
>
> Btw Jakob, are the backends made as plugins? I would like to write a fifth
> option ;)
>
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> Med venlig hilsen / Best Regards
>
> Thomas Tanghus
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