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Adhoc Task Manager
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Skylar Kelty
Skylar KeltyAdhoc task management interface for Moodle 2.7+.
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Adhoc task tool
Adhoc task management interface for Moodle 2.7+. This plugin allows you to report on and manage failing adhoc tasks and to monitor/test adhoc tasks during development. It also provides CLI utilities for running large batches of adhoc tasks at once to offload from cron, for example during annual rollover. Finally it supports custom queue plugins (e.g. beanstalk) for those institutions who need a little more from the adhoc queue system than a cron runner.
See queue/README.md for more information
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Skylar Kelty (Lead maintainer)
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Hi Skylar. Thanks for sharing the plugin with the community. I was able to successfully test the functionality of the plugin and I am really happy about the overall clean and well structured coding style. Well done on that. As I can see you are quite perfectionist when it comes to coding, so I just reported an unimportant suggestion for a small improvement in your renderer (see issue #17 in your tracker).
The only thing that does not let me to immediately approve the plugin right now is that I would like to hear (and see it described here and in the README file) the actual use case for a plugin like this.
The thing is, under normal circumstances, all queued adhoc tasks are immediately executed at the next cron run. As the cron is supposed to run often (like every minute) on recent Moodle versions, it simply does not give the admin enough time to actually use the plugin. I can imagine there are situations where it can be useful - such as when the cron is not running that often or as a testing/debugging tool during the development. Yet I want to understand the actual purpose of the plugin, and ideally make it clear for potential users, too.
I am marking this as needing more work for now to clarify this. Thanks for your understanding and the patience with the review and approval process.
The main use-case we developed this for was to monitor and delete/retry failing adhoc tasks.
There is no way to see them in core Moodle - you have to look into the DB manually which isn't always possible (support staff, etc).
You seem to have addressed David's concerns from last Augst in terms of the README. So I am assuming this is ready to be approved.
However, I do have a question about the beanstalk integration. It looks like beanstalk.php is dependent on your University's system, through the usage of local_kent. Also, what about places that don't use beanstalk? It looks like there isn't any authentication if you call beanstalk.php directly. It can potentially reveal some information.
What about leaving out the beanstalk integration on the public release and have it on your own university specific branch?
The README still doesn't have much information in it and doesn't answer a lot of David's questions. I haven't had time to go through any proper documentation yet.
I went ahead and approved the plugin now. Hopefully Skylar will find time to slightly extend the usage info in a near future.
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