add some basic logging

[jdhoffa]

similar to pacta.data.preparation, so that we know what is going on, and where things are failing etc.

[cjyetman]

FYI... there is this https://github.com/RMI-PACTA/pacta.portfolio.analysis/blob/main/R/write_log.R which we have used in the past to not flood stdout with messages making it difficult to parse, but still get important messages in the error log. It's not widely used though, tbh.

[jdhoffa]

Hmmm. We should maybe consider how we treat logging. write_log feels like something that should actually exist in the workflow.transition.monitor repo. Or perhaps in a "workflow.utils" package.

But yes, that is useful.

I agree with not flooding STDOut, although I think some basic indication of what is going on could be helpful

[cjyetman]

We also have a few cli::cli_h1() commands that do print to stdout, like...

workflow.transition.monitor/web_tool_script_1.R

Line 10 in 4bcd1e5

cli::cli_h1("web_tool_script_1.R{get_build_version_msg()}")

but I'm not sure either will really help with what you're talking about, because they only work when there is not a problem. Errors do get sent to stdout though.

[cjyetman]

relevant discussion here https://github.com/RMI-PACTA/pacta.portfolio.analysis/issues/235