Jq under new management

Programming jq
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There a new sheriff in town. https://github.com/jqlang is a new organization intended to maintain jq going forward. The original maintainers have pretty much abandoned it: the last release, v1.6, is dated Nov 1, 2018

Unfortunately, the documentation did not follow it: https://stedolan.github.io/jq now redirects to https://jqlang.github.io/jq, but the jqlang people have not created their jqlang.github.io repo.

Until this gets resolved, https://github.com/jqlang/jq/blob/master/docs/content/manual/v1.6/manual.yml is the manual online.

I’ve raised this issue on the jqlang discord. We’ll see how long it takes to get fixed. I’d raise an issue in the jqlang/jq repo, but there are literally 10 years of issues open.

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Hmm, the documentation is up. I wonder what was happening to me earlier today.

Confusingly https://jqlang.github.io/jq is OK but https://jqlang.github.io is a 404.

I don’t get how the docs site is working when the org does not have a github.io repo … unless that can be a private repo but some of its pages can be public…

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IIRC, the github.io is based off the repo. So if they’re two different repos, that might explain why one is showing and the other isn’t. :woman_shrugging:

It might also be public vs private…but I don’t know the intricacies of that.

this article also talks about domain ownership…so maybe that is playing a role as well?

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See About GitHub Pages - GitHub Docs. The website is generated from the gh-pages branch: GitHub - jqlang/jq at gh-pages.