Outdated Link in Introduction to Smart Contracts

[dinahjohnson]

Page

Introduction to Smart Contracts
Subsection: Blocks -> Note (just before The Ethereum Virtual Machine section)

Abstract

The Alarm Clock website does not appear to be up-to-date and has a message saying "Ethereum Alarm Clock was a service that allowed scheduling transactions to be executed at a later time on the ethereum blockchain." The project repo also doesn't appear to be maintained - last PR was closed in 2020 and there's no activity on recent open issues and PRs.

Pull request

Wanted to present suggestions before making PR:

• Option 1: Delete reference to alarm clock if the project is no longer being maintained
• Option 2: Suggest newer decentralized smart contract scheduling tools (like Gelato for example)

[cameel]

Thanks for reporting! I think that it would be best to remove the reference and reword the paragraph to just state in a general way that one could use a service of that type. Replacing it with a different project might be convenient for users, but I think that nowadays there are multiple services like that and the docs should be impartial here. This actually applies to the Alarm Clock but I suspect that in the early days when it was added the situation was different.

Would you like to submit a PR with a correction?

[dinahjohnson]

Yes I'd be happy to make a PR with a correction. Thank you for your help!