added documentation and non special options. Breaking change

README.md

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+# Cron
+
+All configuration is to be placed inside the `cron` dict.
+
+```
+# <name>: *jobconfig*
+jobs: {}
+
+# defaults for all jobs, see *jobconfig*
+defaults:
+  user: root
+  weekday: '*'
+  hour: '*'
+  minute: '*'
+  special_time: False
+  random_options:
+    weekday: "{{ range(6)|list }}"
+    hour: "{{ range(1, 22)|list }}"
+    minute: "{{ range(5, 50)|list }}"
+```
+
+**jobconfig**
+```
+# user to run job as
+user: root
+
+# weekday to run job at
+weekday: '*'
+
+# hour to run job at
+hour: '*'
+
+# minute to run job at
+minute: '*'
+
+# can be False or (mutaly exclusive with weekday/hour/minute) one of 'random_daily' or 'random_weekly'
+special_time: False
+
+# options if 'special_time' is not False
+random_options:
+  weekday: "{{ range(6)|list }}"
+  hour: "{{ range(1, 22)|list }}"
+  minute: "{{ range(5, 50)|list }}"
+```

defaults/main.yml

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-cron: {}
+cron:
+  jobs: {}
+  defaults:
+    user: root
+    weekday: '*'
+    hour: '*'
+    minute: '*'
+    special_time: False
+    random_options:
+      weekday: "{{ range(6)|list }}"
+      hour: "{{ range(1, 22)|list }}"
+      minute: "{{ range(5, 50)|list }}"

tasks/job.yml

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 - set_fact:
-    job: '{{ (item.value)|combine(item.value, {"name": item.key}) }}'
+    job: '{{ {}|combine(cron.defaults, item.value, {"name": item.key}, recursive=True) }}'
+    randomseed: "{{ inventory_hostname + item.key }}"
 
 - name: add cron jobs (random_daily)
   when: job.special_time == "random_daily"
   cron:
     name: "{{ job.name }}"
     job: "{{ job.job }}"
-    user: "{{ job.user|d('root') }}"
+    user: "{{ job.user }}"
-    hour: "{{   22 | random(start=1, seed=inventory_hostname + job.name) }}"
+    hour: "{{ job.random_options.hour | random(seed=(randomseed + 'hour')) }}"
-    minute: "{{ 50 | random(start=5, seed=inventory_hostname + job.name) }}"
+    minute: "{{ job.random_options.minute | random(seed=(randomseed + 'minute')) }}"
 
 - name: add cron jobs (random_weekly)
   when: job.special_time == "random_weekly"
   cron:
     name: "{{ job.name }}"
     job: "{{ job.job }}"
-    user: "{{ job.user|d('root') }}"
+    user: "{{ job.user }}"
-    weekday: "{{ ( 6 | random(seed=inventory_hostname + job.name) ) }}"
+    weekday: "{{ job.random_options.weekday | random(seed=(randomseed + 'weekday')) }}"
-    hour: "{{   22 | random(start=1, seed=inventory_hostname + job.name) }}"
+    hour: "{{ job.random_options.hour | random(seed=(randomseed + 'hour')) }}"
-    minute: "{{ 50 | random(start=5, seed=inventory_hostname + job.name) }}"
+    minute: "{{ job.random_options.minute | random(seed=(randomseed + 'minute')) }}"
+
+- name: add cron jobs (not special)
+  when: not job.special_time
+  cron:
+    name: "{{ job.name }}"
+    job: "{{ job.job }}"
+    user: "{{ job.user }}"
+    weekday: "{{ job.weekday }}"
+    hour: "{{ job.hour }}"
+    minute: "{{ job.minute }}"

tasks/main.yml

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 - include_tasks:
     file: job.yml
-  with_dict: "{{ cron }}"
+  with_dict: "{{ cron.jobs }}"