{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/spotify/luigi/issues/1225","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/spotify/luigi/issues/1225/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/spotify/luigi/issues/1225/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/spotify/luigi/issues/1225/events","html_url":"https://github.com/spotify/luigi/issues/1225","id":106986919,"number":1225,"title":"About the \"early quit\"","user":{"login":"leafjungle","id":6143261,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6143261?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/leafjungle","html_url":"https://github.com/leafjungle","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/leafjungle/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/leafjungle/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/leafjungle/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/leafjungle/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/leafjungle/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/leafjungle/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/leafjungle/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/leafjungle/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/leafjungle/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":2,"created_at":"2015-09-17T13:37:40Z","updated_at":"2015-09-18T04:45:11Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Hi boys and girls,\r\n\r\nI start a task by: python AAA.py --background --timestamp xxxxx\r\n\r\nand ps -ef |grep AAA, I can see the procedure exists.\r\n\r\nBut after some time (And I am not sure how long, is it configurable? ), the \"python AAA.py\" procedure is gone, but not all the required tasks are done. and the undone tasks will be always be pending, unless: you start AAA.py again manually.\r\n\r\nhttps://github.com/spotify/luigi/issues/222\r\nI see that it is a \"feature\" of luigi, I have to start AAA again and again by crontab to finish all the required tasks.[Even though I have already config ： worker-keep-alive: True]\r\n\r\nBut each time I start task AAA, I will check the prev timestamp, and process data of the next timestamp, I can not start AAA of the same timestamp repeatedly.\r\n\r\nI am so puzzled of this \"feature\".\r\n\r\nThanks in advance for any feedback."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/spotify/luigi/issues/comments/141342918","html_url":"https://github.com/spotify/luigi/issues/1225#issuecomment-141342918","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/spotify/luigi/issues/1225","id":141342918,"user":{"login":"leafjungle","id":6143261,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6143261?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/leafjungle","html_url":"https://github.com/leafjungle","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/leafjungle/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/leafjungle/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/leafjungle/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/leafjungle/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/leafjungle/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/leafjungle/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/leafjungle/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/leafjungle/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/leafjungle/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-09-18T04:45:11Z","updated_at":"2015-09-18T04:45:11Z","body":"@Tarrasch , thank you very much.\r\nretry-external-tasks, as I can see in the doc, \"external task\" is a task does not define \"run\" function in the code, not the tasks not finished.\r\n\r\nhttp://luigi.readthedocs.org/en/stable/api/luigi.task.html?highlight=external#luigi.task.ExternalTask"}}