New package proposal: yiisoft/schedule — recurring tasks for Yii 3

[zoranbogoevskimkd]

At work we are migrating a large project from Yii 2 to Yii 3, and one capability we lost in the move is scheduling: omnilight/yii2-scheduling hard-requires yiisoft/yii2, so it simply cannot be installed in a Yii 3 application. This package started as our partial solution to that problem, extracted and generalized.

Proposal: a new framework-agnostic package, yiisoft/schedule — recurring tasks defined in PHP, driven by a single cron entry (schedule:run) or a daemon (schedule:work).

Design sketch, borrowing the parts of Symfony Scheduler that proved out:

• TriggerInterface as a pure function (last run → next run), with cron (dragonmantank/cron-expression), periodic-interval and callback implementations
• Tasks as callables, console command names, or queue messages pushed via yiisoft/queue
• Overlap prevention via yiisoft/mutex, missed-run catch-up via any PSR-16 cache, PSR-14 events (where Sentry cron check-ins plug in)
• Commands registered through yiisoft/yii-console params — zero application wiring

A working implementation with tests and full QA tooling is up at KalimeroMK/yii-schedule — happy to transfer it to the yiisoft org, or keep it as a community package if you prefer.

Mainly looking for feedback on: the naming, the queue integration boundary, and whether this is something you'd want as an official package.

[zoranbogoevskimkd]

Closing this one — reposting from my main account (@KalimeroMK), posted from a secondary account by mistake.