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-Jobber is an alternative to cron, with sophisticated status-reporting and error-handling.
+DEPRECATED; Jobber is an alternative to cron, with sophisticated status-reporting and error-handling
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+This project is not actively maintained. See [dshearer/jobber#334](https://github.com/dshearer/jobber/pull/334) for more details.