Prevent retry in case of failure (max_attempts)

[stuhli]

Hello,

is there a way to prevent Scheduled tasks from retrying in case of failure? I haved worked with Scheduled tasks for a while now and I observed the following behavior:

• 'max_attempts': 1, leads to Attempt count: 2, that is, two attempts were made to execute the task (same what my own application logs tell me), obviously the "1" is one retry attempt?
• 'max_attempts': 0, leads to unlimited attempts.

But there are use cases where I don't want a broken task to be executed again, because the chances are high that it will - without interference - break again and does some more unwanted stuff. I can imagine that this also applies to other users / applications?

The documentation says:
Limit the number of retry attempts for failed tasks. Set to 0 for infinite retries. Defaults to 0

It is probably intentional, but - in my opinion - not stringent with the configuration of the scheduled tasks per se. If I configure a Scheduled task via admin interface, Repeats: -1 means unlimited repeats, Repeats: 0 should do nothing (if not used combined with Once) and Repeats: 1 does exactly one execution.

And I don't have the chance to tell the application in the configuration "try this just once and in case of error let it be".

Or do I missing something?

Thanks for your answer / help
stuhli

PS:
And thank all of you for your great work with improving Django Q!!!

[stuhli]

Locking for something completely different, I stumbled over #194 and #466. Obviously, I'm never lucky with my search terms...

So I close this for now and check that. If that doesn't answer my question, I'll reopen this issue.