task reconciliation (background creation/deletion)

[jbr]

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[tgeoghegan]

We know we want something with this shape (control plane syncing its view of tasks with data plane), but I think the specifics depend upon how taskprov materializes in our deployments. Still, the Janus tasks table might already be stable enough that we can make progress here.

[branlwyd]

What is the justification for this? Right now, I think all of our taskprov-enabled deployments do not require a control plane. Has that changed, are we hoping to use the control plane for ourselves, something else?

[tgeoghegan]

I don't think we know enough right now to make good decisions about what to do here. I think it's possible that in a taskprov setting, partner aggregators will still want some observability into and possibly automated management of tasks, and I think divviup-api would be a reasonable place to wire that up. However it occurs to me that I have made the mistake of overloading this issue, which had the well-defined goal of reconciling tasks, with nebulous concerns informed by unclear requirements. So we should probably refocus this issue on task sync/reconciliation, and write up new issues as and when requirements come into focus.