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[Walter Lapchynski <wxl@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I sure would love to see Markdown, too. I note that CommonMark
(http://commonmark.org/) includes implementations built in C and
JavaScript. Considering the canonical (pun intended!) Markdown is in
Perl, perhaps this would speed things up. If someone's willing to
carry the torch on this, I'd be happy to help with testing and what
not.

On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 7:20 PM, William Grant
<william.grant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 28/01/15 13:45, Pierre Equoy wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 10:38 AM, William Grant
>> <william.grant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto: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?
>
>
>  - 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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