# dshearer/jobber

An alternative to cron, with sophisticated status-reporting and error-handling

Repository: https://github.com/dshearer/jobber
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/jobber
Homepage: https://dshearer.github.io/jobber/
Language: Go
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: cron, go, schedule, unix, linux, jobber
Last push: 2024-09-03T20:55:57+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4372, "days_push": 729, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1416, forks 78 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:39.921221+00:00)

## What it is
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- you need an actively maintained project - it is no longer actively maintained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
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: scheduling, workflow-automation, developer-tools
- domain: self-hosted
- platform: cli
- tags: cron-alternative, job-scheduler, error-handling, status-reporting, go, automation, command-line, devops, linux, unix

## Member repositories
- dshearer/jobber (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:39.921221+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:38:05.317723+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/dshearer/jobber (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:39.921221+00:00, sha 57a4c4fd53f5)
  - homepage: https://dshearer.github.io/jobber/ (fetched 2026-08-29T11:50:43.457644+00:00, sha 1ef1dbbfcd4d)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.