roadmap to v1

[topliceanu]

• [ ] organize the module into two distinct pieces:
  • scheduler process
  • rest api process for publishing scheduled tasks, use mortimer
• [ ] get inspiration from other projects:
  • kala
  • dalga written in Go and quite new
  • rufus
  • azure scheduler service
  • mandrill handles webhooks gracefully and [mandrill api for webhooks](
• [ ] add comments, generated docs, code coverage, examples, etc.https://mandrillapp.com/api/docs/webhooks.html)
• [ ] simplify current implementation, no need to extend event emitter
• [ ] support full configuration of webhooks, alternate urls, fallback urls, monitoring, etc.
• [ ] allow customization of endpoint requests. This should allow people to post on queues, etc. Support Amazon SQS and Azure Storage Queue. Support HTTP Basic Auth for outbount links
• [ ] [nice to have] make it api-compatible with azure scheduler
• [ ] maintain a job history, store the results for all the executed jobs
• [ ] [nice to have] add a ui for the scheduler-drone in angular.js
  • build a calendar view of the running jobs. see angular-ui:calendar
• [ ] find a way to bundle recurring jobs toghether, so they don't appear as being separated from each other
• [ ] syntax for a scheduler job, what it contains and how it translates to work docs: retry policy, http verb&url, what to do when there is an error, recurrance params, time of day, job state, outbound endpoint response, etc.
• [ ] cli interface for the daemon process
• documentation on the azure scheduler http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dn479785.aspx
• [ ] you could have a recurrent request be performed with a certain periodicity, but not after a configured date.
• [ ] human readable cron intervals
• [ ] option to specify timezone when configuring a job!

Old and busted todos

• use redis as a backend and especially it's EXPIRE NOTIFY feature
• rest api and programatic api (only when embedded in node.js applications)
• complete refactor, rewrite everything in coffeescript, use express.js for rest api, use mocha for testing

[topliceanu]

not going to implement redis backend for now

[topliceanu]

Works pretty much like ruby's DelayedJob