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[Pierre Equoy <pierre.equoy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 10:38 AM, William Grant <william.grant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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?





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Pierre Equoy
QA Engineer | Canonical
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