A* add a fossil event/technote point in time message

Purpose

Fossil events are used to record events at a particular point in time such as:

Milestones
Blog Entries
Process Checkpoints
News Articles
Announcements
Emails

These can be searched and checked using the When search.

The final trick is that the a-event-log component exists the event is also add there so you end up with all events in a-event-log which serves as a diary/changelog for all the components you are working on.

Of course these are all distributed and are synchronised by the normal fossil mechanisms.

Creating Events

% a-event release v1.01
Updated A for B and C.

The first word in the event message is used to select the color the note based on:

array set colors {
    release* blue
    review* green
    accept* gold
    warn*|failed* red
    * white
}

Searching for events

Open the fossil ui and use the timeline to search.

Automatic creation of events

Some operations in a-make/a-make.mk may create events automatically, e.g. release targets.

Background questions

Why aren’t commits used? well you need to commit something, create the system and test it. Then you say its passed the tests.
Anything else