bodhi 2 now live

Jonathan Wakely jwakely at redhat.com
Mon Aug 24 13:22:15 UTC 2015


On 23/08/15 18:41 -0400, Neal Gompa wrote:
>On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 6:32 PM, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> On 23/08/15 16:36 -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 4:23 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>>>
>>> No, sorry, but that is not true. I wrote those update notes in the Bodhi 1
>>>> web interface, so of course I looked at the resulting formatting. Bodhi 1
>>>> interpreted that syntax as a list, not as a single paragraph. This is a
>>>> change in Bodhi 2 (and IMHO, for the worse, though if there's some
>>>> official
>>>> Markdown spec that says it should be that way, meh…).
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Markdown has no official spec.  The closest you can get is commonmark.
>>> Fairly sure, the current parsing is more "correct".
>>>
>>> http://commonmark.org/
>>>
>>
>> Some Markdown implementations require the blank line before the list
>> (StackOverflow's does), but CommonMark doesn't:
>>
>>  In CommonMark, a list can interrupt a paragraph. That is, no blank
>>  line is needed to separate a paragraph from a following list:
>>  http://spec.commonmark.org/0.21/#example-246
>>
>> So the current parsing doesn't match CommonMark.
>>
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>
>​The current parsing model seems to work the same way as most other
>Markdown enabled systems do (GitHub, BitBucket, Reddit, etc.), where an
>empty line is required just before a list or some other block to work. I
>always thought it was supposed to be that way, since it looks like
>that on Daring
>Fireball's spec <http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax.text>,
>too.​

There's extensive discussion of it in the CommonMark spec.


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