Bug#902267: ITP: jiq -- jid on jq

["Zenon Mousmoulas" <zmousm@noc.grnet.gr>]

June 24, 2018 3:03 PM, "Guus Sliepen" <guus@debian.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 10:07:46AM +0300, Zenon Mousmoulas wrote:
> 
>> Package: wnpp
>> Severity: wishlist
>> Owner: Zenon Mousmoulas <zmousm@noc.grnet.gr>
>> 
>> * Package name : jiq
>> Description : jid on jq
> 
> [...]
>> jiq is a fork of jid
> 
> But what is jid? What is jq? This whole description is useless. Also, in
> the updated description, it says "json incremental digger". The only
> thing that tells me is that it has something to do with JSON. And it's
> interactive, but is this a command line tool? A GUI? A web thing?
> 
> The description should be such that someone who doesn't already know the
> tool will understand what this tool is about, what it can do, and what
> environment it can be used in. Also please avoid terms like "digging"
> and "drilling" in the description, those are not commonly used terms and
> it will confuse people. Rather use "querying", "searching" et cetera.

I posted an updated ITP (should it be a new submission?) but let me try again, also correcting the license (s/MIT/Expat/). As for digger, I am afraid that is part of the acronym chosen by (the forked) upstream.


Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Zenon Mousmoulas <zmousm@noc.grnet.gr>

* Package name    : jiq
  Version         : 0.6.0+git20180621.a79e8b2-1
  Upstream Author : Giovanni T. Parra
* URL             : https://github.com/fiatjaf/jiq
* License         : Expat
  Programming Lang: Go
  Description     : json incremental digger (jid) with jq

 jiq is a fork of jid (https://github.com/simeji/jid) using
 jq (https://stedolan.github.io/jq/) under the hood.
 .
 It is a command line tool that can be used to interactively drill
 down on json input using jq filtering queries.
 .
 jiq calls jq and requires that it can be found in PATH.