[bug#48485] [PATCH 1/2]: gnu: Add shasht

[Guillaume Le Vaillant]

Jack Hill <jackhill@jackhill.us> skribis:

> Thanks for working on this. However, I have a question about the synopsis:
>
>> +      (synopsis "Common Lisp JSON reading and writing for the Kzinti")
>
> As a native American English speaker, I find Kzinti to be an obscure word.
> I didn't know what it meant when I first read it. Doing a search online 
> wasn't that enlightening. The best thing I could fine talked about alien cats
> [0]. Do you think the synopsis could be improved in the future to more clearly
> say what the software is for and improve search results? Perhaps shortening it
> to "Common Lisp JSON reading and writing" would be sufficient?
>
> [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kzin
>
> Best,
> Jack

Before pushing Sharlatan's patch, I changed the synopsis to "Common Lisp
JSON reading and writing library". I also didn't know that word, found
that it was probably a reference to a cat-looking warrior from space in
a series of science fiction novels, and concluded that it was not
really related to JSON processing.

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