Start a job in a time range (H syntax)

[tsbx]

Hello,

I would like to start many nearly identical jobs/services once every X minutes, but not at the exact same time (to not overload the swarm workers).

For now, I handle this manually by specifying a different schedule label for each service.
When I have new services, I have to check for potential overlaps, etc.
As you can imagine, this is pretty cumbersome to maintain.

Have you planned to implement something like the H syntax used in Jenkins ?
It would greatly improve this use case.
Cf. :

• https://stackoverflow.com/a/12472740
• https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/blob/master/core/src/main/resources/hudson/triggers/TimerTrigger/help-spec.jelly
• https://stackoverflow.com/a/21939671

[crazy-max]

Hi @tsbx,

I use robfig/cron on swarm-cronjob for cron implementation and there is a (closed) PR on robfig/cron#47 about this. I will resume work on this PR when I've got time so that we can have an implementation on our side.