Bug#951018: ITP: ruby-tty-spinner -- Library for showing a spinner icon for terminal tasks that have non-deterministic time frame

[Gabriel Filion <gabster@lelutin.ca>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Gabriel Filion <gabster@lelutin.ca>

* Package name    : ruby-tty-spinner
  Version         : 0.9.3
  Upstream Author : Piotr Murach <pmurach@gmail.com>
* URL             : https://ttytoolkit.org/
* License         : expat
  Programming Lang: Ruby
  Description     : Library for showing a spinner icon for terminal tasks that have non-deterministic time frame

tty-spinner provides a selection of different text-based animations that can
be shown when the user is waiting on a task run in terminal that will end some
time that is not known in the future, or for which the completion timestamp
can only be estimated.

Those tasks will usually be waiting for some I/O, for example a download or a
task that was requested from a service that will give an answer whenever the
response is ready.


This package is currently required for packaging puppet-developement-kit
(pdk), but might be needed for other ruby-based scripts expected to run in a
terminal.

I plan on maintaining this library within the ruby team. I will ask for
sponsorship from within the team to ensure that I follow the team's policies
properly.