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Allow to force cancel a job

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
typescript
Domain
frontend

Research direction

No file, test, or entry point is named. Start by locating how River UI displays running jobs and how cancellation or rescuer cleanup is handled; define the change around force-cancelling a stuck job and verify that it can be retried without waiting for the rescuer.

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Description

Hello,
sometime when restarting a worker it doesn't properly get terminated.
This leads to some jobs being stuck in the running state until the rescuer comes to clean up the mess.

Would it be possible to force the cancellation of such jobs to be able to retry them sooner so we don't have to wait for the rescuer ?

Dominant language
TypeScript
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