On 28/01/15 13:45, Pierre Equoy wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 10:38 AM, William Grant > <william.gr...@canonical.com <mailto:william.gr...@canonical.com>> wrote: > > On 28/01/15 13:01, Pierre Equoy wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > I wanted to add a feature request about adding Markdown to the different > > Launchpad text fields (description, comments), but I realized there was > > already an open bug about this [1]. > > > > It looks like Martin Pool did all the work in a separate branch back in > > 2011, and therefore this feature is (almost) ready for the users, but... > > no progress since then, and in 2012 the bug was unassigned and its > > priority reduced to "Low". > > > > Could someone pick up this branch and review it? I think it would be a > > valuable addition to Launchpad, especially for links and code blocks. > > > > Thanks in advance! > > As detailed in the bug you linked, Martin's branch was merged in 2011, > but nobody has picked up where he left off. Markdown support is not > currently a priority for Canonical's Launchpad team, but we'd happily > help with and accept a patch that got the feature closer to > production-ready. > > > > Thanks for your quick answer! > > I indeed didn't see his proposal had been merged to the lp:launchpad branch. > > So what work is remaining to have this feature ready exactly?
- Some kind of caching is required, as Markdown rendering performance is insufficient for widespread realtime use. - Links must be rendered with rel="nofollow" to dissuade spammers. - URLs and other text must be linkified (see <https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~launchpad-pqm/launchpad/devel /view/head:/lib/lp/app/browser/stringformatter.py#L499> for the existing implementation). - Elements rendered from Markdown need to be styled appropriately. - Non-editable content (eg. comments) needs previews to avoid formatting mistakes. - Thought needs to be given to not corrupt the rendering of existing plaintext comments, and to minimise misinterpretation of email content as Markdown.
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