On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 10:26 AM Justin Mclean <jus...@classsoftware.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > Doesn't the new Markdown format help with that?
>
> I hope it will but:
> a) Messy markdown with inconsistent formatting can still look good.
> b) Some podlings submit at the last minutes and ignore formatting.
> c) Some podlings tend to copy and paste the last report and modify and may 
> miss/alter the markdown.
>
> We’ll see what happens.
>
> > Most of my sloppy formatting is already fixed by the Markdown
> > conversion
>
> I'm not sure the board will be viewing the results of the markdown but just 
> the raw text??? Currently the Whimsy report tool doesn’t support markdown 
> right?

Let's back up, and ignore whimsy for the moment.  Approved board
minutes are published here, in text/plain format:

https://www.apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

We need to figuring out what the desired end result (currently I
believe that this is spec'ed someplace as less than 80 characters per
line and no wiki markup, but I forget where), and then work backwards
to figure out when these changes are to be mad.  It is entirely
possible that all of these changes can be made without whimsy.

- Sam Ruby

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