Kill RST

[Mads Kiilerich]

On 03/03/2015 03:22 PM, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 7:57 AM, Andrew Shadura <andrew at shadura.me> wrote:
>> 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).
>>
> I'm fine with this approach, but I'd like to either see
> - plain text being the default in the comment handling, or
> - allow the user to set this as a personal preference

It is also more tricky to do automatic markup of hashes and URLs when we 
support multiple kinds of encoding.

It seems like we kind of agree that RST not is good for this purpose. 
Can we agree that plain text is better than RST? Would it be acceptable 
as a first milestone to drop RST and replace it with plain text with 
automatic markup of hashes?

Next, someone who cares about MD could implement that and make the UI 
and implementation more clean (and possibly also reintroduce an option 
for RST.

/Mads