[request-tracker-maintainers] Cron jobs

[Dominic Hargreaves]

I've noticed that RT3.8 comes with some suggested cron jobs which are
effectively required for some of the functionality within the app to
act as expected (emailing digests and dashboards). These cron jobs have
not, so far, been shipped with the Debian package.

I'd like to add these, as I think the expectations are that the
application should work as designed out of the box, but I'm aware that
some people might not want the cron job enabled. For example, I myself
won't want them to run during the migration of a database to a new
system.

So, does anyone have any opinions on the following possibilities:

1 add them in a normal config file, and leave for the user to disable
  if they want
2 add them in a normal config file, commented out, and let the user
  know they need to enable them to get the full functionality
3 generate the cron job file based on the response to a debconf question
  about whether they should be enabled (has the advantage that we could
  ask about the user to run the cron jobs as - would default to www-data)
4 something else?

I think I favour option 3.

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