Whether Drupal cron runs on this site. Absent means YES.
It defaulted to no, and that is why six of the twenty-five surveyed contrib modules were
classified needs-cron: the capability was built and wired into the alarm, and nothing turned it
on. A module that depends on cron does not fail when cron never runs, it silently does nothing,
which is the worst of the available failure modes.
Whether Drupal cron runs on this site. Absent means YES.
It defaulted to no, and that is why six of the twenty-five surveyed contrib modules were classified
needs-cron: the capability was built and wired into the alarm, and nothing turned it on. A module that depends on cron does not fail when cron never runs, it silently does nothing, which is the worst of the available failure modes.