dshearer/jobber
An alternative to cron, with sophisticated status-reporting and error-handling observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
23/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 4372
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 729
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1416 stars · 78 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Jobber is a lightweight Unix utility that runs scheduled jobs as a replacement for cron, written in Go. It adds job execution history, configurable retry with exponential backoff, and granular error reporting on top of standard cron functionality.
Use cases
- replace cron with better error handling
- schedule jobs with retry and backoff
- see history of whether scheduled jobs succeeded or failed
- get notified only when jobs are disabled after repeated failures
- run periodic commands on a Linux server
When to avoid
- you need an actively maintained project - it is no longer actively maintained
- you only need basic cron functionality
- you need distributed or multi-host job scheduling
Facets
cli-tool · maturity maintenance
scheduling workflow-automation developer-tools self-hosted cli cron-alternative job-scheduler error-handling status-reporting go automation command-line devops linux unix
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/dshearer/jobber · fetched 2026-08-28 · 57a4c4fd53f5
- homepage: https://dshearer.github.io/jobber/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · 1ef1dbbfcd4d
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| dshearer/jobber | main | 23 |
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