[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #9005: Cron spawning improvements

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#9005: Cron spawning improvements
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 Reporter:  azaozz       |        Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  enhancement  |       Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal       |    Milestone:  2.8      
Component:  General      |      Version:           
 Severity:  normal       |   Resolution:           
 Keywords:               |  
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Comment (by filosofo):

 I don't think we should do it this way.
  * The people who are helped by this--those whose servers can't resolve
 domain names--are in small minority, and they are going to have lots of
 other problems that can't be solved: they can't send pingbacks/trackbacks,
 can't ping search engines, can't check for core / theme / plugin updates.
 So instead let's fallback ''for them'' on making a direct call to
 {{{wp_cron()}}} on shutdown.
  * A large proportion of most web traffic are bots, which we should be
 able to take advantage of for cron purposes, as Denis suggests.  Consider
 a small blog, which may not get any human traffic in the middle of the
 night.  Relying on the JS approach could still mean missed scheduled
 future posts.
  * It just seems hacky to have to count on website visitors with
 !JavaScript enabled in order for cron to work.

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