jic: the new beginning

Starting a proper implementation of jic from the scratch. All the legacy
prototyping code is moved to a proper location.

Signed-off-by: Serge Broslavsky <serge.broslavsky@linaro.org>

README.md

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+JIC - JIRA CLI Client
+=====================
+
+MOTIVATION
+----------
+
+To provide an engineer-friendly in-terminal interface to Atlassian JIRA.
+
+
+HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
+---------------------
+
+Initially jic was prototyped in Python. That language was selected to
+speed up the proof-of-concept development to make it cheaper and speed
+up the switch over to a proper implementation in C.
+
+Due to the lack of bandwidth the original author allowed the prototype
+to bitrot to a degree when it can't be installed on a fresh modern
+system (as of May 2016).
+
+The decision has been made to perform the switch over in the end of May
+2016 and start the development of a proper version of jic. The effort is
+supported by Linaro <http://www.linaro.org> as one of the primary users
+for the tool.
+
+
+SOURCES
+-------
+
+JIC sources are hosted on GitHub at:
+
+    https://github.com/ototo/jic
+
+
+VERSIONING
+----------
+
+The project uses semantic versioning (see http://semver.org/ for
+explanation for the approach).
+
+
+CONTRIBUTING
+------------
+
+Please join jic-dev mailing list hosted by Linaro:
+
+    http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/jic-dev
+
+Patches are expected to be sent as emails to the mailing list (above).
+
+Bugs and feature requests are tracked on GitHub:
+
+    https://github.com/ototo/jic/issues
+
+
+AUTHORS
+-------
+
+1. Serge Broslavsky <serge.broslavsky@linaro.org>
+    The idea, design, core of the tool, maintainership.
+
+
+LICENSE
+-------
+
+This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
+Free Software Foundation, version 2 of the License.
+
+This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+General Public License for more details.
+
+You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
+with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+Documentation and all the artwork or this program is distributed under
+Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license (unless it's
+stated otherwise for a particular product). You should have received a
+copy of that license. If not, see <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/>.