# events-on-sx: Calendar, ticketing & notification delivery on Datalog

> **DRAFT outline.** The events vertical + the shared notification-delivery edge.
> Depends on `persist-on-sx` (bookings ledger) and `flow-on-sx` (reminders, retrying
> delivery). Pairs with `commerce-on-sx` for paid tickets.

rose-ash's `events` domain is calendar + ticketing: recurring events, availability,
capacity, bookings. Scheduling is constraint reasoning — "is this slot free given
recurrence, capacity, and the attendee's other bookings?" — which is rule
evaluation over facts. Datalog expresses availability, recurrence expansion, and
capacity as rules; a booking is a transaction; reminders and digests are durable
`flow`s. Notification *delivery* (email/push) — needed here and by `feed/notify` —
is folded in as an injected transport, extractable later.

End-state: a Datalog-on-SX events layer with recurrence expansion, availability +
capacity rules, transactional booking, and a flow-driven notification dispatcher
(reminders, digests, retries) over an injected transport.

## Status (rolling)

`bash lib/events/conformance.sh` → **53/53** (Phase 1: calendar + availability)

## Ground rules

- **Scope:** only `lib/events/**` and `plans/events-on-sx.md`. May **import** from
  `lib/datalog/`, and (once they exist) `lib/persist/` + `lib/flow/`. Do not edit
  substrates.
- **Architecture:** events/availability/capacity are Datalog facts + rules;
  recurrence expands to occurrence facts within a window; a booking checks rules
  then appends a `persist` event (idempotent, capacity-safe). Notifications are flows
  that suspend on transport IO and retry on failure.
- **Determinism:** recurrence expansion + availability must be reproducible for a
  fixed window + ruleset; capacity checks must be race-safe (no overbooking).
- **Commits:** one feature per commit. Progress log + tick boxes.

## Architecture sketch

```
Event + booking                         Result
  event(id,start,rrule,capacity)          {:booked | :full | :conflict} + reminders
        │                                       ▲
        ▼                                       │
lib/events/calendar.sx                  lib/events/availability.sx
  — event facts, recurrence (RRULE)       — free/busy + capacity rules (Datalog)
  — expand occurrences in window                │
        │                                       ▲
        ▼                                       │
lib/events/booking.sx                   lib/events/notify.sx   (flow)
  — transactional, capacity-safe          — reminders / digests, retry on fail
  — bookings → persist ledger               — injected transport (email/push)
        │                                       │
        ▼                                       ▼
lib/events/api.sx ── (events/schedule) (events/book) (events/agenda) ──────┘
```

## Phase 1 — Calendar + recurrence
- [x] `calendar.sx` — event facts, RRULE expansion in a window (DAILY/WEEKLY)
- [x] `calendar.sx` — MONTHLY (bymonthday + nth-weekday byday)
- [x] `availability.sx` — free/busy rules (busy/conflict/busy_in on Datalog)
- [ ] `availability.sx` — next-free slot search (same rules, different bindings)
- [ ] `api.sx` + tests + scoreboard + conformance.sh

## Phase 2 — Ticketing + booking
- [ ] capacity rules; transactional booking → `persist` (no overbooking)
- [ ] paid tickets compose with `commerce` order flow
- [ ] tests: capacity edge, double-book guard, conflict detection

## Phase 3 — Notification delivery (flow)
- [ ] `notify.sx` — reminder/digest flows over injected transport
- [ ] retry/backoff on transport failure (flow suspend/resume)
- [ ] tests: delivery success, retry path, idempotent re-send
- [ ] NOTE: shared with `feed/notify` — candidate for later extraction to a
  `delivery-on-sx` once a second consumer is real

## Phase 4 — Federation
- [ ] cross-instance events (peer calendar) — trust-gated stub
- [ ] tests: federated agenda merge

## Progress log

- 2026-06-07 — `availability.sx`: free/busy + conflict detection as forward-
  chained Datalog over `occurrence`/`booking` EDB. Rules `busy(A,S,E)`,
  `conflict(A,O1,O2)` (canonical `O1<O2`, half-open overlap `S1<E2 ∧ S2<E1`),
  `busy_in(A,QS,QE)` for window queries. API: `ev-busy`, `ev-conflicts`,
  `ev-has-conflict?`, `ev-free?` (transient qwindow assert/retract). Integrates
  with calendar expansion (book expanded occurrences). 16 tests, 53/53 green.
- 2026-06-06 — MONTHLY recurrence. `ev-days-in-month`, `ev-add-months`,
  BYMONTHDAY (incl. negative = from month end), ordinal BYDAY (`{:ord N :wd W}`,
  ord<0 = nth-from-last), default day-of-month (skips months too short, e.g.
  day-31 monthly skips Feb/Apr). Refactored weekly+monthly onto a shared
  `ev-emit-occs` per-period emitter. 37/37 green (+13).
- 2026-06-06 — Phase 1 scaffold + calendar recurrence. `calendar.sx`: integer
  epoch-minute datetimes, Hinnant civil<->day-number conversion, DAILY/WEEKLY
  RRULE expansion in a bounded (start,end) window with INTERVAL, COUNT (window-
  independent), UNTIL, BYDAY (weekly). `ev-expand-all` merges + sorts. Wired
  conformance harness (conf + thin wrapper reusing `lib/guest/conformance.sh`),
  scoreboard. 24/24 green. MONTHLY deferred to next commit.

## Blockers

- None. Substrates present: `lib/datalog` (276/276), `lib/persist`, `lib/flow`
  all exist — Phase 2/3 unblocked when reached.