On Thu, Jul 02, 2026 at 07:57:01AM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > On Thu, Jul 2, 2026 at 7:55 AM Daniel P. Berrangé <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jul 02, 2026 at 07:46:59AM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > > > Contributing to a wiki is significantly easier than contributing to a > > > git controlled document that requires a separate rendering process. > > > > > > Now, as for Fedora Changes? That is a different story. That said, the > > > main beef people seem to have with Changes is that they are written in > > > wikitext rather than markdown. I rather like the real-time editing and > > > drafting capability our wiki gives, it's particularly great for > > > collaborating with others on a jointly submitted document. But yes, > > > I'd prefer a markup I use more frequently than wikitext. > > > > Editting the wikitext format is only part of the story. The use of > > wikitext creates the interoperability problem when we then copy the > > change text into discourse, with formatting repeatedly getting > > mangled. We need a format that is common across all tools used in > > the change process, and/or limit storage of the change to a single > > tool such that lossy/errorprone format conversions are not required > > > > Well, the obvious one is HTML, no? But aside from that, extending our > wiki to accept Markdown would probably help a lot there.
We don't really need the power of HTML most of the time. That's the appeal of Markdown - it is good enough for 95% of docs needs, and you can drop in fragments of HTML inline if really needed. With regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com ~~ https://hachyderm.io/@berrange :| |: https://libvirt.org ~~ https://entangle-photo.org :| |: https://pixelfed.art/berrange ~~ https://fstop138.berrange.com :| -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
