Kill RST

[Andrew Shadura]

Hello,

On Mon, 02 Mar 2015 10:35:36 -0800
Sean Farley
<sean.michael.farley at gmail.com> wrote:

> > - the average user does not need the features RST provides.
> >
> > So as far as I'm concerned, RST can be removed entirely.
> > The same has been done in Unity's tree with commit
> > https://bitbucket.org/Unity-Technologies/kallithea/commits/09286e5ca064de6930d5bdefb9df6708eda19976
> >
> > However, I assume that some other people will find this too harsh,
> > so we can think of compromises, for example:

> Why not make RST 'just work'? i.e. if a user types plain text the
> output is plain text.

I think we need to:

i) switch to some flavour of Markdown by default
ii) let users choose the format of every comment they add: plain text,
md, rst

We can't detect the markup effectively because both rst and md *are*
plain text (well, md more so).

-- 
Cheers,
  Andrew