opensafely-core/job-runner

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A client for running jobs in an OpenSAFELY secure environment, requested via job-server (q.v.)

Stars: 4
Forks: 8
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 106
Avg merge: 1d 10h
Merged PRs (30d): 12

Dominant language: Python
License: No license data
Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
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106 open issues indexed

Simulation of jobs queue to test options Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

opensafely-core/job-runner#1495 · Opened Sep 9, 2026
Investigation: multiple backend instances Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

opensafely-core/job-runner#1484 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 27, 2026
Restart jobs which fail when EMIS EC2 instance is recreated Open

EMISv2

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

opensafely-core/job-runner#1483 · Opened Aug 26, 2026
Upgrade to ruff 0.16 Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

opensafely-core/job-runner#1473 · Opened Aug 6, 2026
Update rap-controller deployment docs Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

opensafely-core/job-runner#1448 · Opened Jun 12, 2026
Consider differentiating between INTIATED and other "running" job statuses Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 56/100

opensafely-core/job-runner#1436 · 4 comments · Opened May 21, 2026
Add scheduled task for cleaning up EMIS temporary tables Open

opensafely-core/job-runner#1428 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 15, 2026
Refactor task_api.py and module-level session object Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

opensafely-core/job-runner#1427 · Opened May 14, 2026
Per-backend config in controller Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

opensafely-core/job-runner#1365 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 11, 2026
Race condition in `create_jobs` Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

opensafely-core/job-runner#1271 · 4 comments · Opened Nov 21, 2025
Create deployment marker Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

opensafely-core/job-runner#1263 · Opened Nov 13, 2025
RAP API endpoint to get list of RAP IDs matching specified criteria Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

opensafely-core/job-runner#1259 · Opened Nov 10, 2025
Create OpenAPI spec for task API endpoints Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

opensafely-core/job-runner#1236 · Opened Oct 23, 2025
Potential future work notes Open

initiative:rap-api-v2

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

opensafely-core/job-runner#1235 · Opened Oct 23, 2025
Update JOB_SERVER_TOKENS env variables and config Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

opensafely-core/job-runner#1234 · Opened Oct 23, 2025
Make the add_job management command available only locally Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

opensafely-core/job-runner#1231 · Opened Oct 22, 2025
Move global test exporter and get_trace out of conftest.py into proper module Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

opensafely-core/job-runner#1181 · Opened Sep 11, 2025
Rough edges on the `agent.cli.ehrql_telemtry` tooling Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

opensafely-core/job-runner#1180 · Opened Sep 11, 2025
Handle 'telemetry only' fields as opaque and customizable Open

initiative:rap-api-v2 waiting-dependency

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

opensafely-core/job-runner#1171 · Opened Sep 1, 2025
Improve OpenAPI $ref (create a Validator?) Open

initiative:rap-api-v2

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

opensafely-core/job-runner#1162 · Opened Aug 28, 2025
Improve backend flags Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 28/100

opensafely-core/job-runner#1153 · Opened Aug 22, 2025
Consider renaming CONTROLLER_TASK_API_ENDPOINT to CONTROLLER_TASK_API_BASE_URL Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

opensafely-core/job-runner#1133 · Opened Aug 6, 2025
Create a manual span for db maintenance mode when it completes Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

opensafely-core/job-runner#1074 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 25, 2025
Consider changing reusable actions implementation so that action code and user code are both accessible Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

opensafely-core/job-runner#1064 · Opened Jun 12, 2025
Ensure all patch tests are written with spec Open

opensafely-core/job-runner#1047 · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 4, 2025
Avoid alerting on temporary network errors Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

opensafely-core/job-runner#1039 · Opened Jun 3, 2025
Do load testing on test backend Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 28/100

opensafely-core/job-runner#996 · Opened May 19, 2025
Make calculate_workspace_state faster Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

opensafely-core/job-runner#945 · 4 comments · Opened May 6, 2025
Investigate transaction weirdness Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

opensafely-core/job-runner#920 · Opened Apr 28, 2025
Write Django model definitions for controller database Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

opensafely-core/job-runner#884 · Opened Apr 23, 2025
Change gunicorn port configuration Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

opensafely-core/job-runner#875 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 17, 2025
Race condition: file from dependency not copied into container for job Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

opensafely-core/job-runner#853 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 11, 2025
Revisit skipped coverage once initial controller/agent split is done Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

opensafely-core/job-runner#828 · Opened Apr 4, 2025
Consider removing workaround for docker containers in error state Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

opensafely-core/job-runner#820 · Opened Apr 2, 2025
DRAFT: RAP Agent proposal Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

opensafely-core/job-runner#782 · 4 comments · Opened Feb 14, 2025
Spike: job-runner hypothesis state machine tests Open

opensafely-core/job-runner#769 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 17, 2025
Database errors should have their own `status_code` Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

opensafely-core/job-runner#768 · Opened Jan 10, 2025
Add note about compressed svg's when hitting level 4 file size limit Open

deck-scrubbing

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

opensafely-core/job-runner#767 · Opened Dec 20, 2024
`record_stats` code throws error for job which was cancelled and never started Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

opensafely-core/job-runner#765 · Opened Dec 4, 2024
Test failure Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

opensafely-core/job-runner#756 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 10, 2024
Remove obsolete files (was "get_obsolete_files() not functioning") Open

opensafely-core/job-runner#750 · 4 comments · 2 assignees · Opened Oct 4, 2024
Refactor VolumeAPI Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

opensafely-core/job-runner#748 · Opened Oct 3, 2024
Stata license caching can break user's setup for ~2 hours Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

opensafely-core/job-runner#734 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 10, 2024
Improve out of memory error given to users Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

opensafely-core/job-runner#725 · 4 comments · Opened Apr 25, 2024
Failure to trace state when preparing for reboot Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

opensafely-core/job-runner#723 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 9, 2024
Depending on jobs that may fail, but that's expected. Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

opensafely-core/job-runner#713 · 4 comments · Opened Mar 7, 2024
Reset jobs to pending when memory is low Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

opensafely-core/job-runner#712 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 7, 2024
Add backstop check for free memory before starting job Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

opensafely-core/job-runner#699 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 2, 2024
Database jobs still running during database maintenance Open

opensafely-core/job-runner#694 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 18, 2023
Replace references to `databuilder` with `ehrql` Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

opensafely-core/job-runner#688 · Opened Dec 11, 2023

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