It would be really handy to have a way to trigger arbitrary actions on a delay or timer, I think.

This came up in the recent RSS module rework, which currently sends notifications on new feed entries based on a message-channel action. Thus, it can't really notify immediately when stuff happens, and notifications can be significantly delayed if the channel is quiet.

Having a way to trigger arbitrary actions on a schedule of sorts, would let us create a new action for RSS notifications, say rss-notify, that checks for new entries and returns IRCResponses if there are any. Could probably take channel names as parameters, to be used as response targets.

We could then trigger this on a schedule, to notify certain channels whenever new RSS feed entries pop up.

So say something like Schedule, but that lets you define an action rather than a command, with appropriate string args (if any)?

Unsure how tricky this would be to implement as a module.