CRON That Doesn’t Let Overdue Items Slip Away
In PDP, we refined the CRON scheduler for monitoring overdue active issues: if the remediation date has passed, the system automatically sends notifications to inspectors, assignees, and managers.
In PDP, we refined the CRON scheduler for monitoring overdue active issues. The logic is simple, but critical: if the remediation date has already passed, the issue is considered overdue, and the system sends notifications automatically.
To whom? Straight to everyone who actually needs to know: inspectors, assignees, and managers. And this works across all 6 acceptance types — no manual checks and no Excel magic, like you sometimes still see “the old-school way” on construction sites 😅
We also covered a case that always shows up in production: if an overdue issue is closed, the notification is sent immediately, without waiting for the next CRON cycle.
And yes, the schedule is tied to Moscow time — so the system behaves predictably for construction sites from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok. In the age of distributed teams and endless timezone quirks, that’s a real must-have.