# fengsp/plan

Crontab jobs management in Python

Repository: https://github.com/fengsp/plan
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/plan
Homepage: http://plan.readthedocs.org/
Language: Python
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Last push: 2022-07-16T22:44:50+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4481, "days_push": 1509, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1184, forks 92 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:54.580023+00:00)

## What it is
Plan is a Python package for writing and deploying cron jobs, converting Python code into cron syntax. It provides a fluent API for defining scheduled tasks and commands to write, update, or clear crontab entries.

## Use cases
- manage crontab jobs from python
- generate cron syntax without mistakes
- deploy scheduled tasks to a server
- define cron schedules in code
- update crontab programmatically

## When to choose
- you want to define cron jobs in Python instead of raw crontab syntax
- you need to programmatically write, update, or clear crontab entries
- you want a quickstart scaffold for a schedule file

## When to avoid
- you need distributed or long-running task queues like Celery
- you are not on a Unix-like system with crontab
- you need actively maintained tooling - the project has seen little activity since 2022

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: scheduling, cli, developer-tools
- domain: -
- platform: python, cli
- tags: cron, crontab, job-scheduling, task-automation, automation, devops, command-line, linux

## Member repositories
- fengsp/plan (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:54.580023+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 2026-08-30T06:24:18.748747+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/fengsp/plan (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:54.580023+00:00, sha a27d9bca7339)
  - homepage: http://plan.readthedocs.org/ (fetched 2026-08-29T12:31:32.461758+00:00, sha b1c90bf752e7)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/plan/json (fetched 2026-08-29T12:31:32.470957+00:00, sha 8252036d41a2)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.