[Owncloud] OT: Newsapp (was: Re: CronJob System within ownCloud)

[Florian Hülsmann]

@Alessandro: Did you check out PubSubHubbub? 
http://code.google.com/p/pubsubhubbub/

Of course not every feed implements PuSH, but it may become more 
interesting if ownCloud has it ;)

Florian

Am 22.07.2012 17:13, schrieb Alessandro Cosentino:
> I need a cron job system for news app too. The use case is the
> following: if the user doesn't check the reader for a long time, he
> might miss some items that might have been in the feed and then been
> removed. This happens with feeds that have frequent updates.
>
> I know that Jakob is working on this.
>
> Alessandro
>
> On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Georg Ehrke
> <ownclouddev at georgswebsite.de> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> I was just wondering if someone is working on a kind of cronjob system for ownCloud.
>> I know that there is the background job app by Jakob, but this app requires an entry in the crontab file.
>> I am currently working on remote calendars and it would be quite useful to have a cron job system, to automatically update the remote calendars.
>> It would actually work without a cronjob system, if you update them if the user is using the calendar, but a cronjob system would make it more comfortable.
>>
>> But there are some planned features, that wouldn't work without a cronjob system.
>> An Example would be an automatic e-mail reminder before an event starts.
>>
>> Does anybody has a clue on how I could solve this problem without making an entry in the crontab file a hard dependency?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Georg Ehrke
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