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[William Grant <william.grant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

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