Show HN: Dcron – Distributed, fault tolerant job scheduling system

Re:Show HN: Dcron – Distributed, fault tolerant job scheduli... by dozzie on Monday August 17, 2015 @11:45AM (#10073748)

You may want to rename your project. dcron is Dillon's cron for quite a lot time already.

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Re:Show HN: Dcron – Distributed, fault tolerant job scheduli... by feld on Monday August 17, 2015 @04:14PM (#10075802)

Yeah upon reading the title I thought Dillon had done some improvements on dcron.

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Re:Show HN: Dcron – Distributed, fault tolerant job scheduli... by victorcoder on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @06:51PM (#10089088)

The project has been renamed to Dkron due to respect to Dillon's cron and to avoid confusion.

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Re:Show HN: Dcron – Distributed, fault tolerant job scheduli... by jedisct1 on Monday August 17, 2015 @05:01PM (#10076084)

Yup, thought the same thing.

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Re:Show HN: Dcron – Distributed, fault tolerant job scheduli... by victorcoder on Monday August 17, 2015 @05:05PM (#10076124)

Right I know, but if he don't mind, both projects are enough different to not create confusion.

Need more time to see if this will be necessary.

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Re:Show HN: Dcron – Distributed, fault tolerant job scheduli... by mattzito on Monday August 17, 2015 @10:30PM (#10077290)

Honestly, it's just the classy thing to do - the impact of changing your name is nominal, the potential confusion with the other Dcron is significant.

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Re:Show HN: Dcron – Distributed, fault tolerant job scheduli... by dozzie on Monday August 17, 2015 @05:57PM (#10076414)

No, they are not different enough. Both are cron daemons. Both are in the end supposed to be packaged. It's really enough to make the newer one (newer by decades!) to change its name.

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