Re: How can we improve the Changes Process?

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.


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