Port CronPlus module to D7

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No estimated timeline, but I'm working on this as one of several modules to be ported. The module is not abandoned by any means; I'm using it in production for my company's timesheet system.

I should think it will be done well before that. I'm planning to move my own sites to Drupal 7 this summer.

I ran the module through Coder Module and this is the patch it spit out that will apply to the current 6.x branch. I'll try to test it out and see how things work and make tweaks as needed. I also made a git sandbox for the patched code as well: http://drupal.org/sandbox/dandaman/1169856

Just a quick update: We're currently using the 7.x port that I posted above on a site currently in development and it seems to be running just fine without a hitch. Of course, if anyone wants to take the code for a spin and see if it's working well for them, that would be appreciated, and if you want to report back on any issues, that would be even more appreciated.

@dandaman - thanks for the patch.

I ran it against the git repository and it applied fine. Ran it against coder and there were a few small minor things I cleaned up. Then I applied it to a D7 site and it seems to be working fine.

So how do we get this out as a stable release? I'm looking to use this with Log Watcher - http://drupal.org/project/logwatcher

Oops, forgot to attach.

As to how to get this to a release, that's a good question. From the looks of it, the maintainer hasn't touched it in a while. We should probably reach out to him/her to see if he/she plans to maintain it. If we don't get a response on that, we'd need to get someone to add one of us to the access list to commit to this module. I'd be fine with doing that if desired because I do often find this module helpful, despite it's fairly basic features.

@mgifford:

I received your private message asking if I'd like some help. Basically, yes, I've been absolutely buried with workload at the job that pays the bills, for the past few months, and no end in sight. If you're offering to be a co-maintainer, I'm glad to accept that offer. Aside from my current work/life situation, I think co-maintainers are a good idea in the general case, because two heads are better than one when making design decisions.

Kind regards,

Syscrusher

Did you check the status report page? I'm having issues with it displaying properly with theming.

I don't really know if it is proper to do this or not but I updated all of the files to include some other guidlines for D7 along with the changes from the support requests. Everything is rolled into this one patch but there is still an issue with the log not displaying the "View cronplus log" button.

Here is the latest as a zip file.

...can we roll this to a 7.x dev please? That would also give us a 7.x branch to file issues against ;)

...actually a task.

I've just added mgifford as a co-maintainer on this project. Thanks to you and to NROTC_Webmaster for the work on the port. NROTC_Webmaster, I'm willing to look at adding you as a maintainer as well, if you wish. It's clear I just haven't had the time away from work to update this, and I'd be a fool to stand in the way of the community offering good help. Gratefully accepted.

Wow, sorry.. Either I didn't see this or forgot about it. Obviously I haven't taken the time to look at this module in a long time.

This is also a good stage to be thinking about D8.

Hi, mgifford

I'm glad to hear people are still interested in this module! I haven't done any D8 development at all, but I may be looking at that soon for some other things.

I'm just finishing up (within the next few weeks) a large non-Drupal open source development project that has had me heavily committed for the last four years. Maybe when that's off my plate I can get back into some Drupal work.

If you want to work on cronplus independently in the meantime, I'm perfectly okay with that. Open source is all about teams and not individuals.

Thanks syscrusher - good job on the other open source work. Hope you can find your way back to Drupal.

D8 is pretty interesting. I've been pushing the accessibility of this for a while. Doesn't leave much time up for other contributions.

I am closing this issue, as Drupal 6 is now not supported. The project doesn't have releases for any of the supported Drupal versions.