Folks, As I mentioned on our IRC meeting today, I want to remove locks for cron jobs. All cron operations are atomic (create, update, kill, deschedule) which makes creating locks unnecessary. Locks currently mean that if there is a failed operation on a cron job, a user must run `aurora job cancel-update` to release the lock before attempting again. This is a pretty poor UX if operations on crons are atomic.
I have filed AURORA-1286 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AURORA-1286> to track this. Please voice your concerns on this thread or on the ticket. Bill mentioned on IRC that locks might die out naturally as a result of removing the client side updater but I would like to get this change done earlier. -- Zameer Manji
